Process for producing rigid reticulated articles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7740897
APP PUB NO 20060093729A1
SERIAL NO

11245369

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A method for forming a ceramic article useful as a bone substitute and having an outer surface defining a shape having a bulk volume and having open, interconnecting openings extending throughout the volume and opening through the surface, includes, providing an organic open-pore structure, coating surface of pores of the structure with a ceramic slip, pyrolyzing the organic structure to leave a ceramic structure having struts defining a plurality of interconnecting interstices, and providing within the interstices a porous osteoconductive composition exposed to the interconnecting openings. In a preferred embodiment, the ceramic slip includes a strong, supportive ceramic material and a separate osteoconductive material.

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WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INCMEMPHIS TN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Heckendorf, Bradley R Menomonie, US 4 155
Johnson, James R Boca Raton, US 116 2271
Marx, Jeffrey G Downingtown, US 12 873
Venarsky, John Jeffrey Godfrey, US 2 17

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