Patent ID: 8246680
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: A61B,A61F,B33Y

Abstract:
1. A method for generating custom implants, comprising: programmatically analyzing a patient's image data to electronically obtain shapes and dimensions of relevant anatomical features of a target region of the patient; displaying an electronic model of a spinal implant based on the programmatically analyzing step; accepting user input to electronically modify the model with a change in at least one of shape, size and material formulation of moldable material for the molded spinal implant; and displaying a modified electronic model based on the user input with a corresponding change in anatomical structure in an anatomical model of the patient's spine to thereby allow a user to view potential therapeutic outcomes or affect on a patient using different models of the spinal implant; then fabricating a patient-specific replacement, non-articulating molded spinal implant for the patient using the analyzed patient image data, wherein the molded spinal implant has a molded custom 3-D bone interface surface that has contours that match excisable natural bone at a contact surface of adjacent local bone of the patient.