Miniature or micro-scale conformable chain mail device for orthopaedic fixation, stabilization, and repair
AssigneeSunnybrook Research Institute
InventorsCari Marisa Whyne, Jacob Zachary Fishman
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Abstract
The present application provides miniature and micro-scale conformable chain mail devices for skeletal fixation, stabilization, and repair, and methods of manufacture and use thereof. The structural devices comprise a conformable sheet of interconnecting polygonal links that form a chain mail mesh having a first and a second outer surface, wherein: the interconnecting links comprise planar surfaces that combine to form the first and second outer surfaces, respectively, of the conformable sheet. Also provide are methods of using the structural device for stabilization of bone tissue, for fixation of bone tissue, as a bone graft patch or as a thin bone tissue replacement.
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A structural device, comprising:
- a conformable sheet of interconnected non-planar polygonal links with each polygonal link able to move with respect to its neighboring links that form a chain mail mesh having a first upper and a second lower outer mesh surface, and having a sheet thickness of 5 mm or less;
- each interconnected non-planar polygonal link comprises planar surfaces that combine to form the first and second outer surfaces of the mesh which when said chain mail mesh is placed on a flat surface said first upper and second lower outer mesh surfaces are completely planar, respectively, of the conformable sheet, and the device is suitable:
- for adhesion to bone tissue for stabilization of bone tissue and for fixation of bone tissue;
- as a bone graft;
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- as a bone tissue replacement, or any combination thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.