Cranioplasty surgical procedure and kit
AssigneeSurgical Prosthetics Resource, Inc.
InventorDennis E. Clark
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Abstract
A process of producing a cranial plate duplicating the dimensions of an excised portion of the cranium comprising, obtaining an excised portion of the cranium of a patient, preparing a three-dimensional impression of the excised portion in an impression material, removing the excised portion of the patient's cranium from the impression material to provide a mold cavity, and thereafter filling the cavity with a sterile resinous material which sets, and thereafter removing the set resinous material to form a plate duplicating the dimensions of the excised portion of the patient's cranium, and finally surgically installing the plate in the patient's cranium to replace the excised portion of the cranium earlier removed.
Claims12
A process of producing a cranial plate duplicating the dimensions of an excised portion of the cranium, said process comprising;
- obtaining an excised portion of the cranium of a patient;
- preparing a 3-dimensional impression of said excised portion of the cranium in an impression material;
- removing the excised portion of the patient's cranium from the impression material to provide a mold cavity of the excised cranial portion of the patient;
- filling said mold cavity of said impression material with a sterile resinous material;
- allowing the resinous material to set;
- removing the set resinous material which is in the form of a plate duplicating the dimensions of the excised portion of the patient's cranium;
- and,
- surgically installing said plate to the cranium of the patient from whom the excised portion of the cranium was removed.
A method of performing cranioplasty surgery, comprising:
- removing a cranial plate from a patient;
- preparing prior to any replacement surgery for said plate an exact duplicate of the removed patient's own cranial plate;
- and thereafter,
- surgically replacing the removed plate with a precast prosthesis duplicate of the removed plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.