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US 6,660,204 B1Granted
Custom prosthesis fabrication with in situ shaping of intermediate casting form
AssigneeOtto Bock Orthopedic Industry, Inc.
InventorsWilliam M. Clover, Jr., Anna M. Hendrickson
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Abstract
A process for fabricating a custom breast prosthesis or an intermediate casting form for a breast prosthesis, in which the task of creating the intermediate casting form is considerably simplified, and enables a shaping of the casting form, in situ.
Claims24
A method for fabricating an intermediate casting form for a breast prosthesis for a particular patient, comprising:
- providing a shell having a cup-like shape;
- adding an impression material into the shell;
- placing the shell containing the impression material into a cup of a bra that corresponds to where the breast prosthesis is desired;
- fitting the bra onto the patient;
- allowing the impression material to begin to set when contacting a chest wall portion of the patient to form an initial shape;
- and
- manually altering the initial shape to make an intermediate shape by applying pressure to the impression material before the impression material is permanently unalterable.
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A method for fabricating a breast prosthesis for a particular patient, comprising:
- providing a shell having a cup-like shape;
- providing a impression material;
- adding the impression material into the shell;
- placing the shell containing the impression material into a cup of a bra that corresponds to where the breast prosthesis is desired;
- fitting the bra onto the patient;
- allowing the impression material to begin to set when contacting a chest wall portion of the patient;
- removing the shell and impression material from the bra before the impression material is permanently unalterable wherein the shell and impression material together have an initial shape;
- after the step of removing shell and impression material, manually altering the initial shape to make an intermediate shape by applying pressure to the impression material through the shell;
- allowing the impression material to set further when substantially in the intermediate shape to create the intermediate casting form for the breast prosthesis;
- forming a mold using the intermediate casting form;
- and
- filling the mold with a prosthesis material to form the breast prosthesis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.