Osteotomy guide and method of using the same
OwnerMark Sandersinventor
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Abstract
Osteotomy tools and procedures are provided that include a sets of guides in which pins are placed through conduits in the guides with a close tolerance and into the bone at predetermined angles. One pin is placed at a correction angle subtending from one of a pair of parallel pins placed across an osteotomy site. After the osteotomy is completed, a bone correction is achieved by rotating the pin at the correction angle to be parallel to the one of the parallel pins located across the osteotomy site. A parallel pin guide is placed over these two pins to maintain the bone correction and stabilize the osteotomy, allowing fixation of the corrected bone segments.
Claims12
A set of guides for use in an osteotomy comprising:
- a parallel guide including a first conduit passing therethrough and a second conduit passing therethrough, the first conduit and the second conduit being substantially parallel;
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- an angled guide including a first angled conduit passing therethrough and a second angled conduit passing therethrough, the first angled conduit and the second angled conduit arranged at a predetermined angle, the angled guide having a substantially trapezoidal cross-section taken substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis running from one parallel edge to another parallel edge of the substantially trapezoidal cross-section, the direction of the longitudinal axis defining a height of the angled guide that is greater than a length of the angled guide and that is greater than a width of the angled guide;
- wherein one of the first conduit and the second conduit of the parallel guide has substantially the same diameter as one of the first angled conduit and the second angled conduit of the angled guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.