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Implant placement systems, devices and methods

  • US 9,566,060 B2
  • Filed: 02/01/2016
  • Issued: 02/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An implant placement system for affixing a soft tissue graft to a prepared socket in a boney surface via an anchoring implant, said system comprising:

  • a. a cannulated driver device comprising an open proximal end, a proximal handle portion, an elongate tubular distal portion that defines the longitudinal axis of the system, an open distal end configured to receive said implant, and at least one lumen extending from said proximal to distal end; and

    b. an elongate insertion device comprising a proximal hub portion and a rigid distal portion configured to receive the first ends of one or more elongate sutures, wherein;

    i. said insertion device is slidably received within said at least one lumen of said driver device;

    ii. the proximal end of said driver device handle portion may be releasably engaged to and disengaged from the distal end of said insertion device hub portion, such that when said driver device handle portion and said insertion device hub portion are engaged, relative rotational and axial movement between said driver device and insertion device is precluded and when said driver device handle portion and said insertion device hub portion are disengaged, relative rotational and axial movement between said driver device and insertion device is enabled;

    iii. when said insertion device and said driver device are engaged as set forth in (ii), the distal end of said insertion device is configured to extend distally past the distal end of said implant when coupled to said driver device so as to enable said insertion device distal end to receive said suture first ends.

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