Mastopexy stabilization apparatus and method
OwnerLane Fielding Smith, Evan Farr Smithinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for mastopexy surgeries correcting a ptosis condition caused by tissue stretching, in the breast as a result of pregnancy, time, aging, and the effects of gravity and athletic activity provide an implant having homogeneously formed connectors extending from inside an implant wall for anchoring to the chest wall or chest muscles of a patient. Embedded reinforcements and anchoring tabs or sutures may be readily oriented along a rib or other defining physiological location in order to provide immediate, permanent, and symmetric installation of implants in a mastopexy reconstruction.
Claims21
An apparatus for mastopexy with augmentation, the apparatus comprising:
- a vessel of an elastomeric material shaped as an outer covering of predetermined form and size to provide augmentation in a mastopexy procedure;
- a filler to maintain a volume of the vessel;
- the vessel, further comprising a back wall forming a surface for contact with tissue posterior thereto;
- a plurality of anchors, each anchor comprising a suture embedded within and to extend along the back wall and terminating at a first end spaced away from the back wall;
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- a surgical needle connected to draw the first end of at least one anchor of the plurality of anchors.
An apparatus for mastopexy with augmentation, the apparatus comprising:
- a vessel of an elastomeric material of predetermined form and size to provide augmentation in a mastopexy procedure, the vessel including a back wall for contact with tissue posterior thereto;
- a filler to maintain a volume of the vessel;
- a plurality of anchors, each anchor thereof comprising a suture embedded within the back wall and terminating at a first end extending outwardly from the back wall of the vessel;
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- a surgical needle connected to draw the first end of at least one anchor of the plurality of anchors.
An apparatus for mastopexy with augmentation, the apparatus comprising:
- a vessel comprising at least one wall formed of an elastomeric material to support augmentation through a mastopexy procedure;
- a filler placed within the vessel to maintain a volume thereof;
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- a plurality of sutures securing to the vessel substantially exclusively through embedment within the at least one wall and terminating at respective first ends extending outwardly from the at least one wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.