Patent ID: 8167943

Claim:
A recovered, cleaned and pre-shaped human allograft implant useful for implantation by fixation in a bone tunnel during orthopedic surgery, comprising a first human bone block in a pre-shaped cylindrical dowel form and further comprising a natural insertion of a first human tendon into said first human bone block, wherein said natural insertion occurs between one of the following bone-tendon pairs, a. patellar bone and patellar tendon, b. patellar bone and quadriceps tendon, c. tibial bone and patellar tendon, or d. calcaneus bone and Achilles tendon; and wherein said tendon runs along at least a portion of the length of said cylindrical dowel and said tendon forms at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of said cylindrical dowel; wherein the portion of the outer circumferential surface maintains essentially the same contour as the rest of the cylindrical dowel.