Method for fusing bone during endoscopy procedures
OwnerWayne K. Auge′, IIinventor
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Abstract
A method of fusing or welding bone in vivo and in a fluid medium, comprising: harvesting a piece of autologous implant bone; treating the implant bone and/or a receiving bone to expose organic component; treating the implant bone and/or the receiving bone by de-fatting; combining the implant bone with other compounds to create an interfacing agent; adding the interfacing agent between receiving bone segments to be fused or welded; and fusing or welding in vivo, in a fluid medium, utilizing electromagnetic energy.
Claims24
A method of fusing or welding bone in vivo and in a fluid medium, the method comprising the steps of:
- harvesting a piece of autologous implant bone;
- treating one or more bones selected from the group consisting of the implant bone and a receiving bone to expose organic component;
- treating one or more bones selected from the group consisting of the implant bone and the receiving bone by de-fatting;
- combining the implant bone with other compounds to create an interfacing agent;
- adding the interfacing agent between receiving bone segments to be fused or welded;
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- fusing or welding in vivo, in a fluid medium, utilizing electromagnetic energy.
A fused or welded bone structure prepared by the method of any of the preceding claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.