Patent ID: 9707058
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61C,A61F,A61L,B33Y,Y10T

Claim:
1. A patient-specific bone implant configured for a bone defect of a patient, the patient-specific bone implant being formed by: determining anatomical information of an area of the patient that includes the bone defect, including obtaining the dimensions of the bone defect; generating a digital model of at least the dimensions of the bone defect based on the anatomical information; planning a three dimensional implant model using virtual structures generated in the digital model, the three dimensional implant model including mathematical representations of a surface of the bone defect; providing a block of porous metal material including a core material at least partially coated with a biocompatible metal material; shaping the block of porous metal material based on the mathematical representations of the bone defect into the patient specific-bone implant, wherein a body of the patient-specific bone implant has an outer surface sized and shaped to match the dimensions of the bone defect based on the mathematical representations of the bone defect surface, wherein at least a portion of the body has an irregular shape to match the surface of the bone defect, and wherein at least a portion of the outer surface of the body is porous such that the outer surface includes void space when the patient specific bone implant is implanted in a mouth of the patient; wherein the block of porous metal material includes a gradation of pore size such that pores are larger on an apical end and smaller on a coronal end.