Patent ID: 11951009
Assignee: MOHAMED R. MAHFOUZ
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 41:
42. A method of designing at least one of a patient-specific bone cutting guide, a patient-specific graft placement guide, and a patient-specific bone plate placement guide, the method comprising:
identifying a first abnormal aspect of a virtual, patient-specific 3D surface representation of a patient's craniomaxillofacial bone, to be replaced as part of a surgical procedure, using surface contours of the virtual, patient-specific 3D surface representation;
comparing a virtual, patient-specific 3D surface representation of a donor bone with a virtual, patient-specific 3D surface representation of a craniomaxillofacial bone graft model to identify a virtual donor graft section of the donor bone;
generating a tangible, patient-specific craniomaxillofacial bone plate using a virtual, patient-specific craniomaxillofacial bone plate that embodies surface contours matching surface contours of the virtual donor graft section and the virtual, patient-specific 3D surface representation of the patient's craniomaxillofacial bone.