71 results about "Bone transplant" patented technology

An injectable and moldable putty comprising biodegradable calcium-based compounds including calcium sulfate, hydroxyapatite, and tricalcium phosphate is invented. The putty hardens into a solid body when mixed with water, saline, serum, or other neutral aqueous solutions. The hardening time of the putty can be tailored in order to meet the specific requirements of various dental or orthopedic applications. The pH of the putty is neutral during and after mixing. The invented putty may be used as bone graft, bone implant, or implantable drug delivery device.

Spinal spacers 20 are provided for fusion of a motion segment. The spacers include a load bearing member 21 having a wall 22 sized for engagement within a space between adjacent vertebrae to maintain the space and an effective amount of an osteogenic composition to stimulate osteoinduction. The osteogenic composition includes a substantially pure osteogenic factor in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In one embodiment the load bearing member includes a bone graft impregnated in an osteogenic composition. In another embodiment, the osteogenic composition 30 is packed within a chamber 25 defined in the graft. Any suitable configuration of a bone graft is contemplated, including bone dowels, D-shaped spacers and cortical rings.

The invention provides a plasticized bone and / or soft tissue product that does not require special conditions of storage, for example refrigeration or freezing, exhibits materials properties that approximate those properties present in natural tissue, is not brittle, does not necessitate rehydration prior to clinical implantation and is not a potential source for disease transmission. Replacement of the chemical plasticizers by water prior to implantation is not required and thus, the plasticized bone or soft tissue product can be placed directly into an implant site without significant preparation in the operating room.

The present invention relates to a bone graft material and a scaffold for tissue engineering applications, which have an osteogenesis-promoting peptide immobilized on the surface. More particularly, the invention relates to a bone graft material and a scaffold for tissue engineering applications, which have a cell adhesion-inducing peptide and / or tissue growth factor-derived peptide immobilized on the surface. By the osteogenesis-promoting peptide immobilized on the surface, the inventive bone graft material and scaffold for tissue engineering applications can promote the transition, proliferation and differentiation of cells associated with regeneration, and eventually maximize the regeneration of tissue. Moreover, the peptide immobilized on the surface has low molecular weight, indicating a reduced risk of immune responses upon its application in the body, and can be present in a stable form within the body, thus showing lasting effects. Accordingly, the peptide makes it expedient to perform surgical operations for the regeneration of periodontal tissue, alveolar bone and other bone tissues, and will show high therapeutic effect.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for near-simultaneous and integrated delivery of bone graft material during the placement of surgical cages or other medical implants in a patient's spine. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device according to various embodiments delivers and disperses biologic material through a fusion cage to a disc space and, without withdrawal from the surgical site, may selectably detach the fusion cage for deposit to the same disc space. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material and a fusion cage in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area.

In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a set of less invasive cervical spine instruments that are used to achieve cervical disc decompression, bone preparation, and the alignment of one or more matched sized bone grafts prior to cervical plate placement. This set of less invasive cervical spine instruments, and the related surgical method, result in reduced surgical time, the preparation of a precise machined bone surface while simultaneously maintaining the cervical disc decompression height of the intervertebral endplates, the selection of one or more prefabricated bone dowel grafts sized to match the machined bone surface and maximizing the surface contact required for cervical spine fusion, the placement of the one or more prefabricated bone dowel grafts (e.g. side by side) that can be of different diameters in order to fully exploit the intervertebral space available, and the alignment of the cervical plate using a cervical spine instrument that is matched to align with the one or more prefabricated bone dowel grafts beneath the cervical plate.

A composite for osteochondral defect repair includes a porous scaffold and a periosteal graft secured to a surface of the scaffold. The composite provides cartilage growth from autologous periosteum chondrogenesis. Biological resurfacing of large osteochondral defects, or a complete joint is feasible using the porous scaffold / autologous periosteal composite. The use of this composite eliminates the necessity of using normal cartilage surface as a donor site and its respective associated morbidity. In one form, the strong bone integration capacity of a porous metal (e.g., tantalum) scaffold and the high grade of integration observed from periosteal chondrogenesis into the normal cartilage eliminates the lack of chondral-chondral integration observed in the autologous osteochondral graft technique.

The present invention uses an anatomically shaped bone graft contouring abutment in place of a conventional healing abutment to control the bone graft for optimal height. The extraction site aesthetics, in the form of enhanced gingival growth, are facilitated by the optimal bone graft placement.

The present invention discloses an injectable-porous-drug loaded polymethyl methacrylate-based composite scaffold bone transplant material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of organic functional materials preparation. The polymethyl methacrylate-based composite scaffold bone transplant material uses polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a scaffold for providing mechanical supporting, and a chitosan-based thermosensitive hydrogel as a pore forming agent and an osteoconductive material and a drug carrier, and the polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and the chitosan-based thermosensitive hydrogel are mixed with each other to form an injectable-porous three-dimensional structural bone cement composite. The scaffold bone transplant material is simple in preparation method, suitable in reaction temperature, and good in biocompatibility, has matched mechanical properties, good biological mineralization and corresponding anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory or anti-tumor capabilities, and has broad prospects in clinical application of reconstruction of bone tissues in future.

A portable surgical workstation for implant formation comprising a base with a central planar section. The central planar section has a plurality of tracks and a throughgoing slot with a recessed stepped surrounding surface formed on a bottom surface of the central planar section. A vise assembly mounted to the base comprises a fixed jaw member secured to the base, a traveling jaw member moveably mounted to the base and a fixed drive housing mounted to the base. The traveling jaw member has a plurality of rail members adapted to be slidably mounted in the central planar section tracks. The fixed drive housing has a threaded longitudinal bore which receives a threaded drive shaft, one end of the drive shaft being secured in the traveling jaw member to transport the traveling jaw member.

Implants, tools and techniques facilitate a percutaneous posterior lateral approach to the placement of an in-situ cage, and an inventive cage design to meet this objective. In terms of apparatus, the invention includes a laterally expandable cage, including a locking gate, enabling the system to be introduced into an intradiscal space through a minimally invasive percutaneous posteo-lateral approach. In addition to the cage designs, adapted to hold bone graft and / or other biologic materials, the invention includes other novel instruments, including an introducer associated with cage placement, deployment and closure.

The invention discloses a large-aperture bone regeneration bracket material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of medical biomimetic material engineering. A natural porous inorganic biological material (cuttlebone) and ammonium dihydrogen phosphate undergo a full reaction at high temperature under high pressure so as to be transformed into a multi-phase biological ceramic (consisting of calcium carbonate, hydroxyapatite and calcium phosphate). The preparation method for the material is simple in process, the material source is abundant, and the cost is low. In addition, the prepared material has good biological compatibility and high compression strength, and is environmentally-friendly. The bone cell experiment shows that the material has bone conduction activity, can promote and induce bone regeneration self-repair, can be degraded step by step in vivo, is an ideal bone transplant replacement material, and has wide application range and obvious social and economic benefits in bone surgical operation.

The present invention relates to the preparation and use of antibiotic-containing nanoparticles for coating an implant including cranial implants and bone graft sites to provide for the extended release of antibiotics to treat infection.

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction methods and devices are designed to achieve an anatomically accurate double bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by using a single femoral and tibial tunnel. The method and devices reconstruct the two bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament in a single femoral and tibial tunnel using a bone-patellar tendon-bone graft. The methods and devices enable an accurate anatomical reconstruction of the anteromedial and posterolateral bundles by creating a single femoral and tibial tunnel as opposed to creating two tunnels in the tibia and femur.

The invention provides a tubular tool for acquiring a human vein transplant in a minimally invasive manner. The tubular tool comprises a tubular tool bit, a tunnel tube and a handle which are sequentially connected and is characterized in that one end of the tool bit is an edge; the inner wall of the tool bit is provided with an annular protruding part which is close to the side, with the edge, ofthe tool bit. The tubular tool has the advantages that the vein transplant can be acquired in an minimally invasive manner, a large skin cut is avoided, and the tubular tool is fast to operate, simple, practicable, capable of saving time and labor and capable of greatly reducing medical treatment cost and the wound of a patient; a long skin cut and a large subcutaneous tissue wound are avoided, the tubular tool rotates and moves forwardly to separate the vein from peripheral tissue and cut off vein peripheral collateral branches while the main part of the vein transplant is kept intact, the main part of the vein transplant is guided into the tunnel tube, the vein is cut off and the transplant is taken out after required acquiring length is reached, and a minimally invasive effect is guaranteed.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for near-simultaneous and integrated delivery of bone graft material during the placement of surgical cages or other medical implants in a patient's spine. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device according to various embodiments delivers and disperses biologic material through a fusion cage to a disc space and, without withdrawal from the surgical site, may selectively detach the fusion cage for deposit to the same disc space. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material and a fusion cage in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area. In one embodiment, the integrated fusion cage is an expandable integrated fusion cage.

The invention relates to an intraoral combined tooth positioning blocky bone extraction and transplantation whole-course guide plate and a manufacturing method thereof, a bone supply area tooth positioning guide plate is connected with a positioning and trimming reference block, and the bone supply area tooth positioning guide plate is used for setting a plurality of positioning points for a bone supply area after being connected with the positioning and trimming reference block; a bone taking guide plate can be connected with the bone supply area tooth positioning guide plate and the positioning and trimming reference block, can be fixed to the bone supply area according to a plurality of positioning points, and is used for cutting out blocky bones; a bone receiving area tooth positioning guide plate can be connected with the positioning and trimming reference block through a slot, the positioning and trimming reference block is the same as a blocky bone in shape, a plurality of positioning points corresponding to the position of the bone supply area are arranged in the bone receiving area through the positioning and trimming reference block, and the obtained blocky bone can be transplanted to the bone receiving area; the intraoral autologous blocky bone can be accurately and safely obtained in a minimally invasive mode, guidance of the whole process of bone taking, bone grafting and implant implanting can be provided for doctors, the operation difficulty is reduced, and the doctors are assisted in completing the whole operation more accurately, efficiently and safely.

Apparatus is provided that includes a surgical tool for use with solid particles and a physiological liquid solution. The surgical tool includes (a) a shaft unit, which is shaped so as to define a delivery lumen, and a distal opening, which is disposed within 10 mm of a distal end of the shaft unit, in fluid communication with the delivery lumen; (b) a composition source, which is coupled in fluid communication with the delivery lumen, and which is configured to provide a solid-liquid composition of the solid particles and the physiological liquid solution; and (c) a pump, which is configured to pump the solid-liquid composition through the distal opening via the delivery lumen.

The invention discloses a scaffold material of chitosan calcic liquid colloid. The scaffold material of the invention is prepared by the steps that chitosan particles precisely weighed and sub-packaged are radiated for 1000min by 10K Gy Co<60> for sterilization; 0.1 percent of acetic acid is served as a solvent to be made into 1.2 percent of water solution; 0.108g of tricalcium phosphate powder and 5 percent of gelatin granules are added and evenly blended under the constant stirring by a magnetic rotor in the water bath of 60 DEG C; 1M NaOH solution titration is added until the pH is 7 after the still standing and cross-linking for 1.5h. The scaffold material of chitosan calcic liquid colloid of the invention is used for being injected into a bone bioreactor at the subperiosteum cavity in a human body to induce osteogenesis and has good biocompatibility, strong flexibility, good quality of osteogenesis, low cost and great potential in bone transplant with simple operation without being cultured by external cells and adding cell factors or growth factors, is absorbable in the human body, and also ensures no risks of infection, immune rejection and the like. In addition, the end product of the metabolism of glucose can also provide energy for series osteoblastic responses. Therefore, the invention provides the good scaffold material for the bone bioreactor.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for near-simultaneous and integrated delivery of bone graft material during the placement of surgical cages or other medical implants in a patient's spine. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device according to various embodiments delivers and disperses biologic material through a fusion cage to a disc space and, without withdrawal from the surgical site, may selectively detach the fusion cage for deposit to the same disc space. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material and a fusion cage in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area. In one embodiment, the integrated fusion cage is an expandable integrated fusion cage. In another embodiment, the bone graft material is loaded into a breech area in the hollow tube.

An ultrasound transmitter device for treating a patient is provided. The ultrasound transmitter device includes an imaging probe; an imaging array; and a therapeutic ultrasound device, wherein the imaging probe is configured to guide the therapeutic ultrasound device to the patients treatment site by use of ultrasound imaging with the imaging array, wherein the therapeutic ultrasound device is configured to produce a controlled intensity of ultrasound energy for treating the patients treatment site, and wherein the imaging probe and the therapeutic ultrasound device are configured to work in conjunction with one another to apply therapeutic ultrasound to tissue or bone graft sites in the patient.