Medartis Ag

Zimmer Gmbh

Thomas Holton

Lon S Weiner

Gregory J Denham

John R Pepper

Ryan D Schlotterback

Stuart D Katchis

A system for deploying a fixation member into an aperture of a bone fastener includes a guide having a body that includes a proximal end and a distal end. The guide includes a guide member coupled to the body near the proximal end. The guide member is configured to guide placement of the fixation member to secure the bone fastener. The system includes an engagement member coupled to the body near the distal end. The engagement member is configured to engage the bone fastener such that the guide member is rotatable, relative to the bone fastener, about an engagement axis to the guide member at any of the plurality of relative orientations about the engagement axis.

Orthopedic fasteners, instruments, and methods

Examples of the invention relate to methods, implants, including bone plates, and instruments for compressing first and second bone portions or a bone portion and an implant together.

Orthopedic fasteners, instruments and methods

A bone coupling device is configured for joining a first bone piece to a second bone piece which includes a first component having an inner surface bounding a first cavity and a first stem portion for insertion into the first bone piece. A second component includes a second stem portion for insertion into the second bone piece and an axially extending connector extending from the second stem portion and configured to be inserted into the first cavity. The connector has an outer surface which is complementarily shaped relative to an inner surface to inhibit rotation relative to each other when the connector is received in the cavity to engage the first component and the second component.

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Warsaw, IN, United States of America

Thomas Holton