System and method for forming material layers for surgical applications
AssigneeOsteoMed LLC
InventorDevid R. Zille
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Abstract
The present disclosure sets forth a system and method for forming sheets of material, such as titanium mesh or plates, for surgical applications prior to surgery. The disclosed solutions provide this capability without incurring expense from use of PEEK or PEKK by manufacturing contoured plates based on a shape of an anatomical structure in a 3D image, such as a pre-defect MRI. The contoured plates are used to stamp the titanium mesh, plate, or other sheet of material into the shape of the bone prior to the defect. In some aspects, the mesh or other material layer can also be trimmed prior to surgery using, for example, a reproduction of the anatomical structure manufactured from a post-defect MRI of the same anatomical structure.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing a stamping apparatus, the method comprising:
- accessing a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a three-dimensional (3D) image of an anatomical structure;
- 3D printing a first contoured plate based on a contoured surface of the anatomical structure of the 3D image;
- 3D printing a second contoured plate based on the contoured surface of the anatomical structure of the 3D image;
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- providing one or more guide members to the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate, wherein the one or more guide members are configured to maintain an aligned positional relationship of the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate during a stamping operation that employs the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate to stamp a sheet of material into a shape that substantially matches a shape of the anatomical structure.
A method of manufacturing a medical device, comprising:
- positioning a sheet of material between a first contoured plate and a second contoured plate, the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate being manufactured based on a contoured surface of an anatomical structure of a three-dimensional (3D) image, the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate being provided with one or more guide members configured to maintain an aligned positional relationship of the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate during a stamping operation that employs the first contoured plate and the second contoured plate to stamp the sheet of material into a shape that substantially matches a shape of the anatomical structure;
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- moving at least one of the first contoured plate or the second contoured plate to perform the stamping operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.