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US 10,646,618 B2Granted
Bone graft
OwnerTimothy Ganeyinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel bone graft and methods for producing said graft. Said bone graft can be used for surgical, plastic and/or cosmetic bone replacement for a patient in need thereof. The bone graft is made of a scaffold or matrix of sheet material having a 3-dimensional pattern of a continuous network of voids and/or indentations for enhancing new bone growth.
Claims10
A bone graft comprising at least two bone matrix scaffolds, each of the bone matrix scaffolds having at least one sheet material that has been exposed to microgravity over its development,
- wherein each of said at least one sheet material comprises a surface pattern that enhances osteo-conductivity and supports osteo-inductivity, wherein the surface pattern is a bone-formation-enhancing repeatable geometric 3-dimensional pattern duplicating or replicating cancellous morphology of under-modelled pre-cancellous bone mimicking a marine or sea mammal bone structure, wherein the repeatable geometric 3-dimensional pattern is repeatably placed on portions of exposed surfaces of the sheet material to create a substantially continuous network having voids formed as a trabecular structure which enhances bone formation,
- wherein the at least two bone matrix scaffolds are parallel to each other and being connected by a series of collagen fibers arranged in a crisscross pattern between adjacent bone matrix scaffolds, the crisscross pattern similar to spokes pattern on a bicycle tire,
- wherein the bone graft experience enhanced tensile loading when exposed to normal gravitational forces,
- wherein said surface pattern is introduced by etching and/or embossing the exposed surfaces of the sheet material,
- wherein the bone graft further comprises osseous material and/or chondral material.
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