Small bone plate for cranial or facial fractures or the like

A bone plate which is substantially planar, which lies in a plane P, and which is for use on fractures and osteotomies of a cranial and facial skeleton and micro fragments of other skeleton sections, comprising screw hole boundaries for receiving bone screws and diminished webs between the screw hole boundaries, at least part of the webs having a cross-sectional area which is at most twice the cross-sectional area of the screw hole boundary, the webs merging into the screw hole boundaries in transitions which are of circular arc fashion and of radius r, wherein said radius r of the transition from the web (21) to the screw hole boundary (22) is dimensioned to be so small that upon bending of the bone plate in plane P such that adjacent hole boundaries contact each other, essentially only the webs (21) are deformed, wherein two or more legs are arranged at nonzero angles with respect to each other, and wherein a leg (43) is provided with approximately parallel side edges and merges via a diminished web (44) into a screw hole boundary (41) of an adjacent leg.

A bone plate which is substantially planar, which lies in a plane P, and which is for use on fractures and osteotomies of a cranial and facial skeleton and micro fragments of other skeleton sections, comprising screw hole boundaries for receiving bone screws and diminished webs between the screw hole boundaries, at least part of the webs having a cross-sectional area which is at most twice the cross-sectional area of the screw hold boundary, said webs having an outer edge and said screw hole boundaries having an outer edge, the webs merging into the screw hole boundaries in transitions which are of circular arc fashion and of radius r, wherein said radius r of the transition from the web (21) to the screw hole boundary (22) is dimensioned to be so small that upon bending of the bone plate in plane P such that adjacent hole boundaries contact each other, essentially only the webs (21) are deformed, wherein said webs intersect said screw hole boundaries such that said outer edges of the webs intersect said outer edges of the screw hole boundaries at angles that are only slightly greater than 90.degree..

A bone plate which is substantially planar, which lies in a plane P, and which is for use on fractures and osteotomies of a cranial and facial skeleton and micro fragments of other skeleton sections, comprising screw hole boundaries for receiving bone screws and diminished webs between the screw hole boundaries, at least part of the webs having a cross-sectional area which is at most twice the cross-sectional area of the screw hole boundary, the webs merging into the screw boundaries in transitions which are of circular arc fashion and of radius r, wherein said radius r of the transition from the web (21) to the screw hole boundary (22) is dimensioned to be so small that upon bending of the bone plate in plane P such that adjacent hole boundaries contact each other, essentially only the webs (21) are deformed, wherein said web has a width of about 0.5 mm to 0.8 mm and a thickness of about 0.4 mm to 0.7 mm, and said radius r is at most about 0.3 mm.