Bone implant
AssigneeAttenborough Dental Laboratories Limited
InventorEdward John Attenborough
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an implant for use in a body, at least one portion of the surface of the implant being mutually engageable with at least one portion of at least one body part. Also disclosed is a method of surgery comprising the steps of: forming an implant comprising at least one portion of the surface of the implant being mutually engageable with at least one portion of at least one body part, applying a layer of adhesive to the at least one portion of the surface, and engaging the at least one portion of the surface with the at least one portion of at least one body part.
Claims31
An implant for use in a body, wherein at least one portion of the surface of the implant is mutually engageable with at least one portion of at least one body part.
A method of surgery comprising the steps of:
- forming an implant comprising at least one portion of the surface of the implant being mutually engageable with at least one portion of at least one body part;
- applying a layer of adhesive to the at least one portion of the surface;
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- engaging the at least one portion of the surface with the at least one portion of at least one body part.
A software model configured to design an implant for use in the body, the software model comprising;
- scanning a patient body part;
- generating a 3D model in silico of the patient body part from the scan;
- generating a 3D model in silico of the implant wherein the implant model has an abutment surface that is a negative of the surface of the body part model;
- predicting the loading pattern and/or fatigue stresses on the implant model using inputted patient data;
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- regenerating the model of the implant in silico until the loading pattern and/or fatigue stresses are within a threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.