Patent ID: 8118846

Claim:
An orthopedic plate system comprising at least one screw and an orthopedic clavicle plate having an inferior surface which is capable of facing a clavicle bone surface in use and which is pre-contoured to accommodate the shape of that bone surface and an oppositely facing concentric superior surface, the plate having a central trunk portion defining a longitudinal trunk axis extending between a first end and a second end and having at least a portion of the inferior surface which includes a curve transverse to the longitudinal axis, said plate including at the first end a pair of divergent arms which extend so as to form a left arm and a right arm, each arm including an arm screw hole which defines a central screw axis that converges toward the inferior surface of the plate and the arm being joined to the trunk portion by a link, each arm of the pair having a longitudinal arm axis which extends between the central screw axis and the longitudinal trunk axis defining an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the trunk area and the angle of the left arm being α and the angle of the right arm being β where α is different than β such that the screw axis of the right arm converges toward but does not impinge on the screw axis of the left arm and wherein the plate has a medial line which describes an S-curve in the lateral plane or in the longitudinal plane.