Patent ID: 8715291

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an arthroplasty jig for preparing a portion of a patient joint to receive an implant configured to replace the portion of the patient joint, the method comprising: in a computer environment, utilize two dimensional image data of the patient joint to undergo arthroplasty; in the computer environment, identifying in the two dimensional image data a first predetermined point which is on an articular surface of a bone forming the patient joint in the two dimensional image data; provide a computer generated implant model, the implant model representing the implant; in the computer environment, identify in the implant model a second predetermined point which is on an articular surface of the implant model, the second predetermined point corresponding to the first predetermined point; identify a location of a resection plane when the first predetermined point is locationally matched with the second predetermined point via a computer processor; and create the arthroplasty jig with a resection guide located according to the identified location of the resection plane, wherein the resection guide is configured to guide a cutting instrument.