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US 10,893,874 B2Granted
Instruments and methods for preparing a bone to receive a prosthesis
AssigneeHowmedica Osteonics Corp.
InventorsMatthew Demers, Fabiano Pace, Charles Jacob Shotmeyer, Elena Steffan
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Abstract
A method of resecting an end of bone comprising inserting a cutting guide having a guide surface into a void in an end of bone such that the guide surface is beneath an end surface of the bone, and resecting the bone along the guide surface while the cutting guide remains disposed within the void in the end of the bone.
Claims9
A method of resecting an end of bone comprising:
- inserting a cutting guide having a guide surface into a void in an end of bone such that the guide surface is beneath an end surface of the bone;
- and
- resecting the bone along the guide surface while the cutting guide remains disposed within the void in the end of the bone.
A method of preparing an end of bone to receive a prosthesis comprising:
- inserting a cutting guide having a cutting guide body and a cutting guide shim into a void in an end of bone;
- cutting the bone along a guide surface of the cutting guide shim while the cutting guide remains disposed within the void in the end of the bone so as to form a resected surface at the end of the bone;
- removing the cutting guide from the void;
- and
- implanting a void filler prosthesis into the void beneath the resected surface a distance equal to a thickness of the cutting guide shim.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.