Patent ID: 6858032
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An orthopedic cutting guide system for precise planar cutting of bony tissue in association with orthopedic surgical procedures, the system comprising: an alignment device adapted to support a surgical bone cutting saw driver, said saw driver driving a generally planar saw blade, said saw driver being supported by said alignment device such that movement of said blade is substantially fixed in a plane coplanar with the plane of said blade relative to said alignment device but the saw driver is free to move both translationally and rotationally relative to said alignment device, said alignment device further being oriented so that a long axis thereof extends generally outward and away from said bony tissue; and a cutting guide adapted to be removably attached to a bone and further adapted to releasably receive said alignment device in at least one nonajustable, substantially fixed position, said fixed position being precisely angularly oriented relative to said cutting guide and wherein said saw blade is passable throgh an aperture closely approximating a least dimension of said saw blade.