Partially resorbable implants and methods

US10537666B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Stryker European Holdings, LLC · US

Inventors

• Bradley William Paddock · Ridgewood, US
• Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr · Bloomingdale, US
• Adam Laurance Wollowick · New York, US
• Oliver Buchert · Franklin Lakes, US
• Matthew B. Havener · West Conshohocken, US
• Robert Cipoletti · Pequannock, US
• Steven Willis · Mahwah, US
• Marc Long · Denville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L2430/38
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Implants including non-resorbable frameworks and resorbable components, as well as methods of use thereof are disclosed. The embodiments include different combinations of a non-resorbable framework (in some case structural and in other cases non-structural), and a resorbable component embedded within and/or around the framework (again, in some cases structural and in other cases non-structural). The disclosed implants provide an efficient means of providing structural support for the vertebral bodies post-implantation, as well as encouraging resorption of the implant and fusion of the associated vertebral bodies without negative side effects and/or failure, such as subsidence of the implant or cracking/fracturing of a portion of the implant when implanted.