Patent ID: 9615913
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A recovered and cleaned pre-shaped human allograft implant comprising: at least one bone block adapted before surgery for fixation in a bone tunnel having a tunnel diameter; said bone block pre-shaped before surgery as a pre-shaped dowel bone block having a dowel diameter specially adapted for fixation in a bone tunnel having said tunnel diameter; and a natural insertion of a first human tendon into said first human bone block, wherein said natural insertion occurs between one of the following bone-tendon pairs, a. patellar bone and patellar tendon, b. patellar bone and quadriceps tendon, c. tibial bone and patellar tendon, or d. calcaneus bone and Achilles tendon; and wherein said first human tendon runs along at least a portion of the length of said first human bone block and said first human tendon forms at least a portion of an outer surface of said first human bone block; wherein the portion of the outer surface maintains essentially the same contour as the rest of said first human bone block; and further wherein said human allograft implant has been treated to minimize the level of antigenic agents and/or potentially pathogenic agents present in the graft.