Methods and devices for utilizing bondable materials
AssigneeP Tech, LLC
InventorsPeter M. Bonutti, Matthew J. Cremens, Justin E. Beyers
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Abstract
The invention primarily relates to fastening and stabilizing tissues, implants, and/or bondable materials, such as the fastening of a tissue and/or implant to a bondable material, the fastening of an implant to tissue, and/or the fastening of an implant to another implant. This may involve using an energy source to bond and/or mechanically to stabilize a tissue, an implant, a bondable material, and/or other biocompatible material. The invention may also relate to the use of an energy source to remove and/or install an implant and/or bondable material or to facilitate solidification and/or polymerization of bondable material.
Claims4
A method of affecting a material comprising:
- locating an unpolymerized material;
- contacting the material with a metallic component attached to an energy source, wherein the energy source is at least one of a vibratory energy source and an ultrasonic energy source;
- applying energy to the component from the energy source to facilitate at least one of solidification and polymerization of the material;
- and
- detaching the energy source from the component,
- wherein at least a portion of the component extends from the material after the material is solidified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.