Patent ID: 6960211

Claim:
An osteosynthetic bone plate for osteosynthetic compression of bone fragments for the reconstruction of mandibular fractures, the bone plate having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis and comprising: a plate upper side and a plate lower side for facing toward the bone fragments; a compression part which has two plate braces extending at least substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis; bridging struts, which intersect the longitudinal axis, connecting the two plate braces to one another, each plate brace extending along a brace axis and having an eyelet on at least one outer flank of the compression part; attachment struts adjoining the eyelets and extending along the brace axis; a disk-shaped plate member situated at an end of each of the attachment struts and having a fixation hole for receiving a bone screw, each fixation hole having a countersink on the plate upper side for receiving the head of a bone screw in a partially recessed manner; connecting struts having a greater width than the attachment struts, which intersect the transverse axis, and extend between the eyelets located on each plate brace; and oblong compression holes having a longitudinal axis extending longitudinally along the brace axis, and eccentric countersinks on the plate upper side for the compression of the bone fragments, one of the compression holes being situated in each of the eyelets, wherein the bone plate has a thickness in the range from 0.5 mm to 1.5 mm.