Implant bore insert
AssigneeSignal Medical Corporation
InventorsLouis Serafin, Nicholas Burlingame
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Abstract
Implant bore insert has an outer surface that is, at least in part, substantially cylindrically aligned. The insert may be blind, thus forming a cup, or it may be open ended. The insert can be provided with a predetermined outer circumferential surface that provides for a suitable interference fit with a corresponding bore hole of an implant component part. When inserted into the bore hole, the insert preferably seats itself on a blind end of the bore hole. Examples of implants employed with the insert can include ceramic ball joint heads and teeth.
Claims20
An implant bore insert comprising a body that at least a side wall, which has an inner surface that can receive a stem or other component part of an implant, and which outer surface that can be inserted into a bore hole in another component part of the implant and that is, at least in substantially cylindrical.
In combination, an implant bore insert sing a body that forms at least a side wall, which has an surface that can receive a stem or other component part of an implant, and which has an outer surface that can be inserted into a bore hole in another component part of the implant and that is, at least in part, substantially cylindrical;
- and the other implant component part into the bore hole of which the insert is inserted, the bore hole having, at least in part, a substantially cylindrical side wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.