Patent ID: 9662214
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A61F,B29C,B29L,B33Y,C23C,F04C

Claim:
1. A method of manufacturing a custom, patient-specific orthopaedic prosthesis for a patient's damaged bone, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a patient-specific mold designed from image data of the patient's damaged bone; inserting a porous substrate into a negative space defined by the patient-specific mold, the porous substrate including a plurality of struts that define pores of the porous substrate, wherein the porous substrate has a first shape being slightly larger than the negative space defined by the patient-specific mold; shaping the porous substrate by compressing the slightly larger porous substrate within the negative space defined by the patient-specific mold, wherein compressing the porous substrate with the patient-specific mold permanently deforms, breaks, or crushes a portion of the plurality of struts of the porous substrate to reshape the porous substrate; and after the shaping step, coating struts of the porous substrate with a biocompatible metal.