US 11,833,062 B2
Instruments for expandable interbody implants
Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Bloomingdale, NJ (US); Oliver Buchert, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US); and M. Todd Miller, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US)
Assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed by Howmedica Osteonics Corp., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/373,117.
Application 17/373,117 is a continuation of application No. 16/131,726, filed on Sep. 14, 2018, granted, now 11,083,597.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/559,037, filed on Sep. 15, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338455 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4601 (2013.01) [A61F 2/4455 (2013.01); A61F 2/4611 (2013.01); A61F 2/447 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30556 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4625 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4631 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
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1. A method for packing an implant with graft material, comprising:
providing the implant having an internal cavity;
selectively packing a first region of the internal cavity with graft material, wherein when packing the first region with graft material a second region of the internal cavity remains absent of graft material;
inserting the selectively packed implant between first and second vertebral bodies;
subsequent to the inserting step, supplying additional bone graft material into the second region of the internal cavity; and prior to the selectively packing step, receiving the implant, by a block having a projection, wherein the projection is received through an opening into the internal cavity such that the projection occupies the second region of the internal cavity.