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US 2013/0211534 A1Published application
Prosthesis
AssigneeFinsbury (Development) Limited
InventorAndrew Clive Taylor
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Abstract
A prosthesis comprising a plastics body and a plurality of barbed stakes extending from a bone-facing surface of said body; said stakes being sized and located to provide fixation on impaction
Claims12
A prosthesis for fixation to a bone, the prosthesis comprising a body formed from a plastic material, the body having a bone-facing surface and a plurality of barbed stakes extending from the bone-facing surface;
- the plurality of barbed stakes being sized and located so as to provide fixation to the bone when the bone-facing surface is impacted into the bone.
A method of forming the prosthesis, comprising the steps of:
- molding the prosthesis having a bone-facing surface and a plurality of integral stakes;
- and
- locating the plurality of integral stakes against a heated tool to form barbs on at least some of the plurality of integral stakes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.