CLARIBONE ® offers novel educational training tools to improve hand fracture fixation training, and demo hand trauma products. Current metacarpal simulators are homogenous, lacking tactile feedback necessary for drilling and K-wire insertion. We are a team of doctors and engineers who have designed and fabricated high-fidelity metacarpal bones with cortico-medullary differentiation to improve the quality of hand fracture fixation training nationally.
Innovative
Our innovative design makes our training models accurate representatives of real bones, providing cortico-medullary differentiation with tactile feedback necessary for drilling and K-wire insertion.
Green
CLARIBONE ® has partnered up with Circular11 who will upcycle our used prototypes into construction materials and gardening products.
Affordable
Our training models are 3D printed meaning we can keep costs down.
Awesome Team
We are a friendly team of doctors and engineers. Feel free to get in touch.
Our high fidelity metacarpal bones are constructed of two different materials to simulate the cortex and medulla. Our engineers have delved into the material properties of metacarpal bone to get the right cortico-medullary ratio. The outer cortex is 3D printed using an SLA printer, and then injected with plaster-of-paris to represent the inner softer medulla.
Feedback from orthopaedic and plastic surgeons
“I like the fact that is see through so you can see progress of K wire”
“Distinction between cortex and medulla was appreciable in terms of the haptic feedback”
“Good for all levels specifically in terms of K-wire fixation techniques”
“The resin simulates the slippery surface of the periosteum well”
“Better comparison [than other prototypes] to normal bone”
“Doesn't have the same spongy/crumbly feeling that a [homogeonous control model] alone has”
“Good for beginners who have not had experience of what drilling actual bone feels like”
“Will revolutionise the AO hand trauma teaching - IM screws + K-wires”
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Upcoming appearances
Foundation Trainees Surgical Society National Conference
MedTech University College London
King's College London Surgical Innovation Society
The Royal Society of Medicine - Future Orthopaedic Surgeons Conference 2024
BAPRAS Congress 2023 - Interface
BOTA Annual Congress 2023
MedSync Hand Fracture Fixation Training Course
ASiT Surgical Innovation Summit - Future Surgery 2023
Edinburgh, 20 July 2024
London, 2 March 2024
London, 21 February 2024
The Royal Society of Medicine, London, 13 January 2024
Newcastle, 29 November - 1 December 2023
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 28 November - 1 December 2023
London, 25 November 2023
ExCel London, 14-15 November 2023
Shortlisted for the Cutlers' Surgical Innovation Prize 2024 by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Lets get in touch. Send us a message:
Email: hello@claribone.com
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