Sacroiliac fusion implant
OwnerAdam Isaac Lewis, Lauren Chase Thornburginventors
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Abstract
A sacroiliac fusion implant device assembly has an implant body and a pair of bone fasteners. The implant body has a distal end and a proximal end with a longitudinal axis extending between a center of the distal end and a center of the proximal end. The distal end has cutting edges configured to cut tissue as the implant is pressed into a joint between a sacrum and an ilium. The proximal end has two bone fastener receiving apertures, each configured to receive a bone fastener and the implant body has a pair of sidewalls connecting the distal and proximal ends. The pair of bone fasteners can be a pair of threaded fasteners, or a pair of spike fasteners or a combination of one threaded fastener and one spike fastener.
Claims20
A sacroiliac fusion implant device assembly, the device assembly comprising:
- an implant body having a distal end and a proximal end with a longitudinal axis extending between the distal end and the proximal end and having sidewalls extending between the distal and proximal ends, wherein the proximal end of the implant body has an opening extending therethrough along the longitudinal axis, wherein the distal end of the implant body has spaced apart edges jointly defining an opening within the distal end of the implant body, wherein at least one of the spaced apart edges includes a cutting edge configured to cut tissue as the implant is placed into a space defined by bone of a sacroiliac joint wherein the longitudinal axis extends between the spaced apart edges, wherein the proximal end of the implant body has a plurality of bone fastener receiving apertures therein, and wherein each of the bone fastener receiving apertures is configured to receive a bone fastener.
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