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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2020
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US);
Daniel J. Hatch, Greeley, CO (US);
Joe W. Ferguson, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Paul Dayton, Fort Dodge, IA (US);
W. Bret Smith, Lexington, SC (US);
Lowell Weil, Jr., Lake Forest, IL (US);
F. Barry Bays, Collierville, TN (US);
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US);
Abstract
Instruments and surgical techniques may be used to correct a bone deformity, such as a bunion in which a metatarsal is misaligned with respect to a medial cuneiform. In some examples, a bone cutting guide is utilized to cut an end of the metatarsal and/or an end of the medial cuneiform to facilitate realignment of the bones. The cutting guide can have a pivotable cut guide surface along which a cutting instrument is translated to provide a precise bone cut. In some applications, after suitably preparing and aligning the bones, the bones are compressed together using a fixation pin. The fixation pin can be driven through one of the bones, into the second bone, and then further driven to compress the bones together.