MORPHOLOGICALLY CURVED SAGITTAL WALL OF A TIBIAL IMPLANT

摘要

Disclosed herein are methods of designing and fabricating prosthetic implants having a sagittal wall in which at least a portion thereof traverses a non-linear path. A method of fabricating such a prosthetic implant may include generating a virtual bone model based on image information obtained from at least one bone, determining a proposed height of the prosthetic implant at a first location on the virtual bone model, determining a proposed resection depth into the at least one bone at the first location based at least in part on the proposed height of the prosthetic implant, and determining a curved resection path across a portion of the virtual bone model. The curved resection path may intersect the first location and the prosthetic implant may have a curved sagittal wall corresponding to the curved resection path.

主权项

1. A method of manufacturing a prosthetic implant comprising:
generating a virtual bone model based on image information obtained from at least one bone; determining a proposed height of the prosthetic implant at a first location on the virtual bone model; determining a proposed resection depth into the at least one bone at the first location based at least in part on the proposed height of the prosthetic implant; determining an at least partially curved resection path across a portion of the virtual bone model, the curved resection path intersecting the first location; and fabricating a prosthetic implant having a curved sagittal wall corresponding to the curved resection path.