Patent ID: 8382836
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61L

Abstract:
1. A method for impregnating a porous bone replacement material, comprising: enclosing a porous bone replacement material in a chamber with two openings that can be closed; introducing a liquid impregnating agent into the chamber until the porous bone replacement material is at least partly immersed in the liquid impregnating agent; closing one of the two openings of the chamber; evacuating the chamber at least partly through the other opening so that the air contained in the pores of the porous bone replacement material is at least partly removed from it; and terminating the vacuum produced in the chamber by supplying air or a gas through one of the two openings of the chamber so that the vacuum produced in the pores of the porous bone replacement material is terminated by the impregnating agent penetrating into the pores of the porous bone replacement material immersed into the liquid impregnating agent.