Wholly patient-specific orthopedic implants and implanting apparatuses, system and manufacture thereof

A computer-based method of designing a customized patient-specific implant of a small-joint bone, wherein said implant comprises a head and a stem, wherein said small joint bone comprises a shaft and an intramedullary cavity, and wherein said method comprises steps of—

• obtaining a three-dimensional anatomic information of a patient in a form of images, individual points (point-cloud data), surfaces, or solid bodies;
• measuring morphological parameters of the patient's bone;
• identifying anatomic landmarks;
• generating, based on the morphological parameters and anatomic landmarks, a three-dimensional model of the head, wherein said three-dimensional model of the head comprises a contour and a solid body;
• and
• generating, based on the morphological parameters and anatomic landmarks, a three-dimensional model of the stem, wherein said three-dimensional model of the stem comprises an orthopedically compatible object for insertion into the intramedullary cavity,
• wherein said small joint bone is selectable from a group consisting of elbow, shoulder, wrist, hand, finger, ankle, foot, and toe bones.