Bone screw shimming and bone graft containment system and method

Details Bone screw shimming and bone graft containment system and method Bone screw shimming and bone graft containment system and method

1998-02-24

1999-11-16

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 76, A61B 1756

Patent

active

059849266

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for shimming a hole drilled in a bone for the insertion of an orthopedic screw. The system includes a sleeve with an elongated sleeve shaped body having an external surface and an internal surface, a first end, a mid portion, and a second end. The mid portion of the body is made from woven fibers that are free to move relative to one another and being woven in a crisscrossing spiral arrangement along the sleeve shaped body. The first end of the body includes an opening that can accept a rod. The second end of the body is smaller than the first end of the body, so that the first end of the sleeve shaped body may be inserted into the hole with the aid of the rod, and so that when the orthopedic screw is inserted into the elongated sleeve the woven fibers of the body will move relative to one other to accommodate the orthopedic screw and take up any space between the screw and the hole.

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