Patent ID: 11963847
Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 14:
15. A method for a Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO), comprising:
positioning a bone plate in a desired initial position with a first surface of the bone plate facing away from the tibia and a second surface thereof facing a tibia so that a proximal portion of the bone plate extends over a proximal tibial segment and a distal portion of the bone plate extends over a distal tibial segment that has been cut away from the proximal tibial segment and rotated and seated within a recess formed in the distal tibial segment when the proximal tibia segment was cut away;
inserting a first distal bone fixation element into the distal tibial segment of the tibia via a first distal hole extending through the distal portion of the bone plate such that a head portion of the first distal bone fixation element is seated within a recess extending along a distal portion of the first distal hole; and
inserting a second distal bone fixation element into the distal segment of the tibia via a second distal hole extending through the distal portion of the bone plate distally of the first distal hole so that a head portion of the second distal bone fixation element slides along a sloped compression surface extending along a side of the second distal hole to move the distal portion of the bone plate to rotate the bone plate about the first distal bone fixation element to apply compression of the proximal tibial segment against the distal tibial segment,
wherein the second distal hole further includes a groove extending into the sloped compression surface proximal of a distal end of the second distal hole, and
wherein inserting the second distal bone fixation element into the distal segment of the tibia further comprises inserting the second distal bone fixation element through the second distal hole along a caudal side of the longitudinal axis of the distal portion of the body via the groove.