Patent ID: 9248022
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method of filling a defect within a glenoid surface of a scapula, the method comprising: defining a bore in the scapula that extends deeper than the defect, implanting a porous defect-filling component into the defect, the porous defect-filling component having a number of holes defined therein, and inserting a number of pegs of a discrete polymer glenoid component into the number of holes of the implanted porous defect-filling component so as to secure the discrete polymer glenoid component to the implanted porous defect-filling component, wherein the number of pegs includes a first peg that extends through a first hole of the number of holes, the first peg having an end positioned beyond the first hole and received in the bore defined in the scapula after the discrete polymer glenoid component is secured to the implanted porous defect-filling component.