Orthopedic implant that saves bone cutting with drill bits in advance in orthopedic and dental surgeries
AssigneeStar Generation Limited
InventorChun-Leon Chen
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AssigneeStar Generation Limited
InventorChun-Leon Chen
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An orthopedic implant includes a main body, which has a downward tapered configuration formed of a plurality of steps of different diametrical sizes arranged along a drilling axis, each of the steps includes a cylindrical and a conical section, and the conical section of the lowest and diametrically smallest step is downward tapered into an apex; an external thread, which is externally formed on the main body to cover all the cylindrical sections but not the conical sections; a plurality of lateral cutting flutes, which are formed on the external thread into the main body and extended from the apex to the diametrically largest step with a spacing distance left between upper ends of the lateral cutting flutes and a top of the largest step. The orthopedic implant can be independently driven into a bone without the need of bone cutting using drill bits in advance and enables good osseointegration.
An orthopedic implant that saves bone cutting with drill bits in advance in orthopedic surgery, comprising:
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