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| 20080257363 | Method And Apparatus For Manufacturing An Implant - An orthopedic implant manufacturing method. The method includes preparing a preliminary pre-operative surgical plan for a specific patient, communicating the plan to a surgeon of the patient, and receiving an orthopedic implant design recommendation of the surgeon. The implant design recommendation can include selecting one of first, second or third options, the first option being a patient-specific implant, the second option being a semi-custom implant, and the third option being an off-the-shelf implant. The method further includes sending a request for manufacturing the selected implant to a manufacturing center, receiving the implant, and forwarding the implant for implantation. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080262624 | Patient-Modified Implant And Associated Method - An orthopedic implant. The implant has a first portion including at least one patient-adjustable feature, and a second portion including at least one standard feature. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090254093 | Patient-Specific Alignment Guide - An orthopedic apparatus includes an alignment guide attachable to one of a femoral joint surface of a femur of a patient. The alignment guide has a patient-specific three-dimensional engagement surface, and at least one guiding portion defining a guiding passage. The engagement surface anatomically matches a corresponding portion of the femoral joint surface. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100100193 | PATIENT MATCHED HIP SYSTEM - A method of selecting a patient matched hip joint prosthesis includes identifying a plurality of first parameters of a hip joint anatomy of the patient. The method also includes selecting a standard modular neck member from a set of different standard modular neck members to substantially match the first parameters of the hip joint anatomy of the patient. Moreover, the method includes performing a hip joint mechanical analysis using the selected standard modular neck member. Further, the method includes choosing for implantation either the selected modular neck member, a different standard modular neck member, or a custom designed neck member based on the hip joint mechanical analysis. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110093086 | Patient-Specific Hip Joint Devices - A patient-specific acetabular resection guide includes a dome-shaped surface bounded by a periphery. The dome-shaped surface is a three-dimensional patient-specific surface designed to anatomically match and be received into an acetabulum of the patient, based on a three-dimensional image of a hip joint of the patient reconstructed from a medical scan of the hip joint. The resection guide includes a plurality of guiding formations defined on the resection guide and having patient-specific shapes and orientations for guiding corresponding osteotomies relative to the acetabulum for correcting hip dysplasia. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110160867 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC TOOLS AND IMPLANTS - A method for preparing a femoral neck for receiving a neck implant includes obtaining image data of a proximal femoral bone and femoral neck of a patient by a medical imaging method and constructing a three-dimensional image model of the proximal femoral bone and neck of the patient using the image data. The method further includes identifying a three-dimensional cortical boundary surface at an interface between cortical and cancellous bone of the patient using the image model. A patient-specific broach having a three-dimensional cutting surface closely matching and complementary to the cortical boundary surface of the patient using the image model is designed and manufactured. | 06-30-2011 |
