Bone cap and method of making same

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A61F 2/28 (2006.01) A61F 2/42 (2006.01) A61L 27/00 (2006.01) A61L 27/16 (2006.01) B29C 35/02 (2006.01) B29C 70/76 (2006.01) A61F 2/30 (2006.01) B29C 43/00 (2006.01) B29C 67/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2154658

A bone cap implant (10) of the type used to cover a remaining portion of a resected bone, such as metatarsal, metacarpal or phalangeal bones. The bone cap serves as an articulation surface for the proximal phalanx in the metatarsophalangeal, metacarpophalangeal or interphalangeal joints. A method of making the bone cap by forming an existent tubular sleeve (12) made of expanded PTFE integrally bonded to non-expanded PTFE (14) without the use of adhesives. A method of forming a structure onto an existent structure, such as one made of expanded PTFE, by sintering without the use of adhesives.

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