Bone fixation screw system

• US 6,022,352 A
• Filed: 01/13/1998
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLC (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Biomet Incorporated (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vandewalle, Mark V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Buiz, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): REIP, DAVID OWEN
• Application Number:
  US09/006,239
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 606/65, 606/66, 606/67, 606/68, 606/69, 606/70, 606/71, 606/72, 606/73, 606/77, 606/79, 606/80, 128/898, 128/899
• US Class Current: 606/286
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/746 the longitudinal elements coupled to a plate opposite the femoral head
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/866 Material or manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8685 comprising multiple separate parts
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00004 (bio)absorbable, (bio)resorbable or resorptive

Abstract

A bone fixation screw system and method of utilization thereof is provided for a bone having first and second sections with a fracture interface there between. A preferred embodiment of the bone fixation screw system includes a side plate having a first part for placement adjacent the bone second section and a second part angled from the first part providing a barrel. The barrel is adapted for insertion into a transsectionally extending bore into the bone in at least the second section of the bone. A lag screw is also provided for positional retention of the first section of the bone with respect to the second section of the bone. The lag screw also has a first part of a resorbable material for threaded connection of the lag screw within the bore of the bone in at least the first section of the bone, the lag screw having a second part connected with the first part made from a stronger nonresorbable material. The present invention also provides a bone screw having a resorbable material for a threaded first part. The bone screw first part is connected to a nonresorbable bone screw second part.

Claims

1. A bone screw comprising:

a first part of a resorbable material for threaded connection of the bone screw within a bone, said first part having a first mating surface; and

a second part made from a stronger non-resorbable material, said second part having a second mating surface, said first mating surface and said second mating surface each having mating contoured surfaces, said first mating surface is torsionally locked with said second mating surface and said first mating surface is axially locked with said second mating surface in a first axial direction and a second axial direction, whereby torsional and axial movement of said first part relative said second part is inhibited.

2. A bone screw as described in claim 1 wherein the first part of the bone screw is made from a plastic material and the second part of the bone screw is made from a metal.

3. A bone screw as described in claim 1 wherein the second part of the bone screw has a head at a rear end.

4. A bone screw as described in claim 1 wherein the bone screw first part surrounds the bone screw second part.

5. A bone screw is described in claim 4 wherein the bone screw first part surrounds a stud of the bone screw second part.

6. A bone screw as described in claim 5 wherein the bone screw second part has a shoulder between the stud and the remainder of the second part of the bone screw.

7. A bone screw as described in claim 1 providing a lag screw for positional retention of a bone having first and second sections with an interface there between, the bone screw including a first part of a resorbable material for threaded connection of the bone screw within a transsectionally extending bore of the bone in at least the first section of the bone, and a second part connected with the first part made from a stronger nonresorbable material.

8. A bone screw as described in claim 7 wherein the first part of the bone screw is made from a plastic material and the second part of the bone screw is made from a metal.

9. A bone screw as described in claim 7 wherein the first part of the bone screw has a maximum diameter greater than a maximum diameter of the second part of the bone screw.

10. A bone screw as described in claim 7 wherein the bone screw first part surrounds the bone screw second part at an extreme end of the bone screw second part.

11. A bone screw as described in claim 10 wherein the bone screw first part surrounds a reduced diameter section of the bone screw second part.

12. A bone screw as described in claim 11 wherein the bone screw second part has a shoulder between the reduced diameter section and the remainder of the second part of the bone screw.

13. A bone screw as described in claim 11 wherein the bone screw second part reduced diameter section is tapered towards the bone screw second part extreme end.

14. A bone screw as described in claim 10 wherein the bone screw second part that is surrounded by the bone screw first part, has a torsional tongue and groove connection with the bone screw first part to aid impartation of torque between the second and first parts of the bone screw.

15. A bone screw as described in claim 14 wherein the torsional tongue and groove connection includes an axial longitudinal groove on the bone screw second part.

16. A bone screw as described in claim 15 wherein a depth of the axial longitudinal groove in the bone screw second part is progressively increased toward the extreme end of the bone screw second part.

17. A bone screw as described in claim 10 wherein the bone screw second part that is surrounded by the bone screw first part, has a generally annular tongue and groove connection with the first part to aid axial retention of the bone screw first part to the bone screw second part.

18. A bone screw as described in claim 17 having a plurality of annular tongue and groove connections and wherein the annular tongue and groove connections have annular grooves on the bone screw second part and respective depths of the annular grooves are progressively increased towards the extreme end of the bone screw second part.

19. A method of treating a bone with first and second sections separated by an interface there between with a bone screw comprising:

drilling a transsectionally extending bore through the bone penetrating into the first and second sections;

threadingly connecting within the transsectionally extending bore of the first bone section, a bone screw with a first part having a male thread of resorbable material and a bone screw second part connected with the first part of a second stronger nonresorbable material having a head at a rear end urging against the second bone section; and

at least allowing the resorbable first part of the bone screw first part to partially dissolve before removing the bone screw.

20. A method of treating a bone with an affixed plate with a bone screw comprising:

drilling a bore through the bone penetrating into the bone;

threadingly connecting within the bore of the bone, a bone screw with a first part having a male thread of resorbable material and a bone screw second part connected with the first part of a second stronger nonresorbable material, the second part having a head at a rear end urging against the plate; and

at least allowing the resorbable first part of the bone screw first part to partially dissolve before removing the bone screw.