Cohesive bone composition
A cohesive bone composition is made from a moldable bone composition intermixed with a bone gel composition. The cohesive bone composition is made from human cadaver bone. A fluid can be added, the fluid may also be laden with cells.
1. A method of manufacturing a cohesive bone composition of a mixture of a moldable bone composition and a bone gel composition comprises the steps of:
wherein the method of manufacturing a moldable bone composition comprises the steps of:
cutting cortical bone plates into long pieces;
shaving the cortical bone plates to form cortical strands or shavings 3 mm or greater in length;
demineralizing a first portion of the cortical shavings;
grinding another portion of the cortical shavings; resulting in cortical bone having three portions, a demineralized cortical shavings portion, a mineralized cortical shavings portion and a powered cortical portion;
cutting and grinding cancellous bone to form a portion of mineralized crushed cancellous bone from a size of 1000 to 1700 microns;
freeze-drying each portion;
mixing together all of the portions in a predetermined ratio to form a freeze-dried composition; and
wherein the method of making a bone gel composition consisting of cortical bone comprises the steps of:
preparing cortical bone by cutting the cortical bone into pieces, freeze-drying the pieces and then grinding into particles and demineralizing the ground particles and the freeze-drying the demineralized ground particles to form DBM particles;
autoclaving a volume of the DBM particles mixed with sterile water in a 2:1 ratio by volume for a predetermined time at a pre-set temperature and pressure to form a gelatin;
cooling the gelatin to form a bone gel composition;
packaging the resulting bone gel composition; and
wherein a volume of moldable bone composition is mixed with a volume of the bone gel composition and wetted with a fluid to form the cohesive bone composition.
2. The method of manufacturing a cohesive bone composition of claim 1 further comprises the step of adding a vial of fluid to the packages.
3. The method of manufacturing a cohesive bone composition of claim 2 wherein the vial of fluid can be sterile water, lactated Ringer's solution, normal saline, plasma, blood or any other commonly used material with or without cells added.