Process for regenerating bone and cartilage

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5837235
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08602833

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Bone and cartilage are regenerated in a patient by a process of removing fatty tissue such as omentum tissue from a patient, comminuting the tissue to form small tissue particles, suspending the particles in a liquid to form a suspension, depositing the suspension on a solid carrier to prepare a solid implanting material, implanting the implanting material in a patient in an environment favoring bone or cartilage formation, and regenerating bone or cartilage in the patient. The carrier can be demineralized bone, collagen, mineral material or synthetic polymer material in pulverulent, textile, porous particle or monolith form. A cell adhesion agent may be applied to the carrier or added to the suspension, and a growth factor may be deposited on the carrier. Comminuting is performed by digesting with an enzyme and/by mechanically comminuting. Liquid used to form the suspension may contain a gel precursor which is gelled after the suspension is deposited to the carrier. Preferably, the implanting material is implanted within about 1 hour of removing the fatty tissue from the patient.

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EITHICON INCP O BOX 151 US HIGHWAY 22 WEST SOMERVILLE NJ 08876
DE PUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC700 ORTHOPAEDIC DRIVE WARSAW IN 46581

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mueller, Werner Wiesendangen, CH 99 881
Thaler, Thomas Zurich, CH 17 1801

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