Patent ID: 9271744
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for a partial socket replacement comprising: mounting a patient-specific acetabular guide on an acetabulum of a patient, wherein the acetabular guide is configured to mate to the patient's acetabulum in only one position; guiding a cutting tool through a patient-specific bore of the acetabular guide, wherein the patient-specific bore of the acetabular guide is configured to overlay a defect in the acetabulum of the patient; removing damaged tissue of the defect; forming a patient-specific implantation slot by removing the damaged tissue, engaging a patient-specific inverse acetabular guide to allograft tissue; guiding a cutting tool along a guiding slot of the patient-specific inverse acetabular guide, the guiding slot configured during the preoperative plan to mate with a wall of the patient-specific implantation slot; and extracting a patient-specific partial acetabular implant from the allograft tissue; and implanting the patient-specific partial acetabular implant in the patient-specific slot, wherein the implant is the allograft tissue implant.