Patent ID: 6025538
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: A61F,A61L

Abstract:
A compound bone device made from sterile bone tissue for implantation into a surgical site which supports an anatomical load applied to the compound bone device during a post-operative period while the implanted bone tissue is being resorbed and remodeled, comprising:a first bone member defining a first mating face constructed and arranged to support a load in a direction that is normal to the first mating face and to receive and engage a complimentary mating face of a second bone member;a second bone member defining a second mating face that is complimentary to the first mating face of the first bone member constructed and arranged to support a load in the direction normal to the second mating face, said mating faces being mounted to each other so that the first and second bone members form a compound bone device which prevents displacement of the first bone member with respect to the second bone member in both a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction when an anatomical load is applied;each bone member defining a bore within its body which is angularly oriented with respect to a plane across its mating face and opens on said mating face, each bore being axially aligned with an angularly oriented bore defined in the body of the other bone member and a cortical pin member mounted in said axially aligned bores extending across said mating face in an interference fit to hold the first and second bone members in engagement resisting separation of the first and second bone members.