Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
623230620 | Cement | 16 |
20080208354 | Solid Precursor For the Preparation of a Pasty Bone Replacement Material By Admixture of a Liquid - The solid precursor is used for the preparation of a pasty bone replacement material by admixture of a liquid. The precursor comprises calcium-containing ceramic particles and a hydrogel or a substance which can be swelled into a hydrogel; whereby said precursor has been obtained by wet autoclaving and subsequent drying. | 08-28-2008 |
20080221701 | Osteostimulative settable bone graft putty - A settable osteostimulative bone graft putty composition having a bioactive glass particulate component composed of a long-term and a short-term component; the long-term component having particle sizes greater than 90 micrometers and the short-term component having particle sizes less than 90 micrometers; the long-term component comprising about 60% to 90% of the bioactive glass osteostimulative particulate component dry weight and the short-term component comprising about 40% to 10%; a binder component having a calcium sulfate component and a calcium silicate component; the calcium sulfate component comprising about 35% to 50% of the binder component dry weight and the calcium silicate component comprising about 65% to 50%; the bioactive glass osteostimulative particulate component being about 20% to 60% of the total putty dry weight composition and the binder being about 80% to 40%; the bioactive glass particulate component and the binder component mixable in water to form the putty. | 09-11-2008 |
20080228284 | Specific Polyphosphazene-Containing Three-Dimensional Bone Support Implants and Methods for Their Use - The present invention relates to expandable semi-compliant devices that may be used for the treatment of diseased or injured bone tissues, and methods of using the same. The semi-compliant device of the present invention is inserted into an interior space of a cancellous bone tissue, and is filled with a suitable material to provide internal structural support to the bone. The semi-compliant device may further comprise a polymer or a polymer surface coating of a biocompatible polyphosphazene polymer such as poly[bis-(trifluoroethoxy)phosphazene] or derivatives thereof. Such semi-compliant devices or surface coatings may also act as carriers for medicinal, radiological, or thermal treatments of diseased bone. | 09-18-2008 |
20080269909 | SPACER-POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE BONE CEMENT - This describes a polymethylmethacrylate bone cement that is characterized in that it contains a hydrolytically-degradable X-ray opaquer with a Mohs hardness equal to or less than 3 and a water solubility at room temperature of less than 4 g per liter. The polymethylmethacrylate bone cement is used as temporary placeholder. | 10-30-2008 |
20090030525 | METHOD FOR RESTORING A DAMAGED OR DEGENERATED INTERVERTEBRAL DISC - The present invention relates to a minimally-invasive method for restoring a damaged or degenerated intervertebral disc at an early stage. The method comprises the step of administering an injectable in situ setting formulation in the nucleus pulposus of the damaged or degenerated disc of the patient. The formulation once injected combines with nucleus matters and host cells, and becomes viscous or gels in situ within the annulus fibrosus of the disc for increasing the thickness and volume of the damaged or degenerated disc. The formulation is retained within the disc for providing restoration of the damaged or degenerated disc. | 01-29-2009 |
20090192629 | Composition for an injectable bone mineral substitute material - The invention refers to an injectable composition for a bone mineral substitute material, which comprises a dry powder mixed with an aqueous liquid. The powder comprises a first reaction component comprising a calcium sulphate hemihydrate with the capability of being hardened to calcium sulphate dihydrate when reacting with said aqueous liquid; a second reaction component, which comprises a calcium phosphate with the capability of being hardened to a calcium phosphate cement when reacting with said aqueous liquid; and at least one accelerator for the reaction of said first and/or second reaction component with said aqueous liquid. A method of producing an injectable bone mineral substitute material is also provided, wherein the composition is mixed in a closed mixing and delivery system for delivery. | 07-30-2009 |
20090198345 | CALCIUM SILICATE-BASED COMPOSITE CEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a method for producing calcium silicate-based bone cement and a composition produced by the method. It further provides a novel mixture for bone tissue repair. | 08-06-2009 |
20100063598 | BONE FILLING MATERIAL AND KIT FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE SAME - A bone filling material prepared from both a cement material for bone filling and a crimpled fibrous material, which is filled into an affected part in such a state that the crimpled fibrous material is dispersed in a cement base material consisting of the above cement material. It is preferable that the cement material contain calcium phosphate cement and the crimpled fibrous material have a mean diameter of 10 to 500 μm. | 03-11-2010 |
20100228358 | BONE FILLING CEMENT - The present invention relates to an injectable bone cement for filling bones with mechanical properties equivalent to those of vertebral spongy bone comprising 70 to 99 wt. % of an acrylic polymer combined with an inorganic type radiopaque compound and 1 to 30 wt. % of calibrated hydrophilic flexible solid particles, said calibrated hydrophilic flexible solid particles being chosen from gelatin, poly(glycerol sebacate) or a mixture thereof. | 09-09-2010 |
20120191214 | Hydraulic Cement-Based Implant Material and Use Thereof - The invention relates to implant materials that are based on hydraulic cements in the form of one or more pastes, suspensions or dispersions that contain mineral and/or organic and/or organomineral solids and that react, when combined or when reacted with an aqueous liquid, to a solid in a cement-type initiation reaction. The invention also relates to the use of these materials as technical, medical-technical and/or pharmaceutical products, especially as bone cements, bone replacement materials, bone glues, dental filling materials and implantable active ingredient carriers. The implant materials according to the invention in the form of one or more pastes, suspensions or dispersions that contain mineral and/or organic and/or organomineral solids are formulated in an excipient liquid in such a manner that the pastes, suspensions or dispersions are stable in storage at normal conditions over a prolonged period of time and that they react, when combined with an aqueous liquid or when added to an aqueous liquid, in a cement-type initiation reaction and set to a solid. The excipient liquid of the mineral paste, suspension or dispersion is substantially water-free, and water immiscible or insoluble or hardly soluble in water in the chemical sense. | 07-26-2012 |
20130116798 | BONE ADHESIVE AND A METHOD OF DELIVERY - An adhesive precursor and method of delivering an adhesive precursor for fixing bone fragments together. | 05-09-2013 |
20130150979 | ANTIMICROBIAL METHACRYLATE CEMENTS - Bone cement compositions and methods of making two-part bone cements. The methods comprise transferring premixed powder and a liquid component into a receptacle, and mixing the powder component and the liquid component to form a cement composition. The premixed powder component comprises an acrylic polymer and a radical initiator. The bone cement is loaded with from about 5% to about 6% gentamicin by weight of the powder component, and from about 4% to about 5% vancomycin by weight of the powder component. The methods include filling a mold cavity with the bone cement composition to form a temporary spacer implant. The bone cement compositions provide a viscosity profile sufficient for the bone cement composition to flow within the mold cavity for an elapsed working time period of greater than about 6 minutes from the start of mixing at approximately 23° C. | 06-13-2013 |
20130268088 | BONE SUBSTITUTE COMPOSITION - An injectable bone mineral substitute material composition with the capability of being hardened in a body fluid in vivo, which comprises at least one calcium phosphate component and at least one calcium sulfate component as a dry mixture mixed with an aqueous liquid, and at least one accelerator, the at least one calcium sulfate component being particulate hardened calcium sulfate, which has a specified particle size that is in order to confer injectablity to the composition. The invention also concerns the bone mineral substitute material produced from the composition as well as methods and uses thereof. | 10-10-2013 |
20140142718 | FLEXIBLE TISSUE MATRIX AND METHODS FOR JOINT REPAIR - A synthetic, flexible tissue matrix and methods for repairing hyaline cartilage defects in a joint using the flexible tissue matrix are described. The flexible tissue matrix includes a high molecular weight polycaprolactone polymer entangled with a polysaccharide such as hyaluronic acid. In the methods, autologous bone mesenchymal stem cells are introduced to a joint by a microfracturing technique, and a membrane made of the flexible matrix is applied to the joint. Cartilage which forms in the joint is hyaline cartilage rather than fibrocartilage. | 05-22-2014 |
20140163692 | Securable Implantable Component - Implantable components configured to be secured to a recipient with a bonding agent are presented herein. The implantable components are configured to be implanted adjacent to a recipient's bone and/or tissue and have a surface for attachment to the bonding agent. | 06-12-2014 |
20160081732 | INTEGRATED CEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR BONE AUGMENTATION PROCEDURES AND METHODS - A method of harvesting bone marrow, including percutaneously introducing a multi-lumen cannula into a cancellous bone, applying suction through a first passage defined in a first lumen of the cannula, injecting a thick flowable material into the bone from a second passage in a second lumen of the cannula, extruding the thick flowable material through a distal end of the cannula into the cancellous bone in order to displace the bone marrow and other bone fluids, the suction applied through the first passage providing a hydraulic force guiding the displaced bone marrow and collecting the displaced bone marrow for a therapeutic or diagnostic purpose. A thick flowable material for use in harvesting bone marrow in the cancellous portion of a bone and a method for percutaneously preparing a bone with a multi-lumen cannula and an inflatable device are also discussed. | 03-24-2016 |