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US 11,896,278 B2Granted
Device for the controlled removal of osseointegrated implants and improved osseodisintegratable implants
OwnerRolf G. Winneninventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a medical device for freeing an implant from the bone of a patient to which the implant adheres to and to an implant for insertion into a bone of a patient, designed such that the implant is more homogenously heatable or coolable in a controlled way. Also provided is a method of removing an implant from a bone of a patient and a computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a database structure.
Claims13
Implant for insertion into a bone of a patient, said implant having a coronal surface and an apical end, wherein the implant is designed such that the implant is heatable and/or coolable,
- wherein the implant comprises a cavity that comprises a channel that has a diameter of maximally 25% of the implant's diameter,
- wherein said channel extends along the longitudinal axis of the implant over a distance of at least 90% of the length of the implant, and
- wherein said cavity opens only to the coronal surface of the implant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.