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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
Shon David Steger, Warsaw, IN (US);
Robert Travis Mckee, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Shawn David Roman, Orange Park, FL (US);
Bradley James Winterroth, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Shon David Steger, Warsaw, IN (US);
Robert Travis McKee, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Shawn David Roman, Orange Park, FL (US);
Bradley James Winterroth, Jacksonville, FL (US);
BIOMET MICROFIXATION, LLC, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods of fixating bone include repairing or remodeling a hard tissue defect with a composite bone structure. The composite bone structure includes at least two hard tissues or bones and a scaffold material fixed together by an adhesive component. The apparatus and methods include positioning the hard tissues/bones, conforming the scaffold material to at least a portion of a surface of the hard tissues/bones, contacting the adhesive component with the hard tissues/bones and the scaffold material, and changing the material state of the adhesive component to another material state at which the adhesive component fixes together the hard tissues/bones and the scaffold material, thereby forming a composite bone structure having a desired rigidity.