Patent ID: 8114081
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A bone plate system treating a bone comprising: a first bone plate having upper and lower surfaces and configured and dimensioned for attachment to a bone; and a second bone plate having upper and lower surfaces and configured and dimensioned for attachment to the bone; and a plurality of through-holes passing through each of the first and second bone plates from their upper surfaces to their lower surfaces, the holes in the first plate being configured and dimensioned to receive bone screws along screw axes non-parallel to one another and the holes in the second plate being configured and dimensioned to receive bone screws along screw axes non-parallel to one another, one of the first and second plates having a plurality of holes configured and dimensioned to receive bone screws which, when the first and second plates are coupled to a bone in desired locations, extend substantially parallel to a joint axis of a joint associated with the bone, the other of the first and second bone plates having a hole configured and dimensioned to receive a bone screw along a screw axis which, when the one of the first and second bone plates is coupled to the bone in the desired location, extends substantially perpendicular to the joint axis, the first bone plate extending along a longitudinal axis, a first end of the first bone plate being substantially p-shaped with a tab extending from an end portion thereof laterally away from the longitudinal axis and away from the second bone plate, the tab including a tab through-hole configured and dimensioned to receive a bone screw along a screw axis which, when the first and second plates are coupled to the bone in the desired locations, extends substantially parallel to a screw axis of the second bone plate.