Patent ID: 8357166

Claim:
A method of performing an orthopaedic surgical procedure on a bone of a patient, comprising: positioning a customized patient-specific cutting block in contact with the bone of the patient, inserting a pair of guide pins into a pair of guide pin holes defined in the customized patient-specific cutting block, inserting a cutting blade of a bone saw into the customized patient-specific cutting block, making a first cut with the cutting blade in the bone of the patient with the customized patient-specific cutting block, removing the customized patient-specific cutting block from the bone of the patient without removing the guide pins from the bone of the patient, inserting the pair of guide pins into a pair of guide pin holes defined in a patient-universal re-cut block after removing the customized patient-specific cutting block from the bone, inserting the cutting blade into the patient-universal re-cut block, and making a second cut with the cutting blade in the bone of the patient with the patient-universal re-cut block.