Patent Document ID: 8568487
Application ID: 12978069
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A hip-joint device comprising: a patient-specific acetabular resection guide including: a dome-shaped surface bounded by a periphery, the dome-shaped surface is a patient-specific three-dimensional surface designed to anatomically match, and is adapted to be received into, an acetabulum of a pelvis of the patient in one position, based on a three-dimensional image of a hip joint of the patient reconstructed from a medical scan of the hip joint; and a plurality of guiding formations defined on the resection guide, the guiding formations having patient-specific shapes and orientations for guiding corresponding osteotomies relative to the acetabulum for resecting and separating the acetabulum from the pelvis, and enabling rotation of the acetabulum relative to the pelvis of the patient for correcting hip dysplasia of the patient.