US 12,232,965 B2
Patient specific graft cage for craniomaxillofacial repair
Mario Götz, Bretten (DE)
Assigned to DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US)
Filed by DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/386,805.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/057,913, filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0031460 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/30 (2006.01); A61F 2/28 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/30942 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2875 (2013.01); A61F 2002/2878 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30062 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30943 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30948 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30985 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making a patient-specific bone graft cage computer model for forming a patient-specific bone graft cage to construct a portion of a defective mid-face region of a patient's skull, the method comprising:
generating an initial-computer model of the patient's bone structure;
extrapolating a surface of a bone in the defective mid-face region wherein the surface defines a void in the defective mid-face region, and wherein the extrapolating the surface step includes identifying a plurality of landmark locations around a periphery, of the surface, defining the void in the defective mid-face region to determine a contour of the surface; and
generating the patient-specific bone graft cage computer model based on the initial-computer model and the extrapolation of the surface of the bone, wherein the patient-specific bone graft cage computer model is configured to match the extrapolation of the surface, wherein the patient-specific bone graft cage computer model is weakened by including a plurality of apertures that are configured to receive bone graft material such that each of the plurality of apertures includes an open end and terminates at a closed end opposite the open end, and wherein the open end is configured to receive the bone graft material, and the a closed end is defined by a base that is configured to support the bone graft material.