Patent ID: 7235080

Claim:
A tibial cut guide for cutting the proximal tibia of a knee joint, including a femur and a tibia, to prepare the joint for receiving an implant, the tibial cut guide comprising: a cutter guide including a guide surface defining a tibial cutting plane for resecting the proximal tibia; a plurality of probes interchangeably connectable to the cutter guide, each probe extending from the cutter guide to project between the tibia and femur, each probe defining a femoral reference surface spaced a predetermined distance above the tibial cutting plane to contact a lower surface of the femur overlying the tibia and thus space the tibial cutting plane the predetermined distance from the lower surface of the femur, the predetermined spacing of the femoral reference surface from the tibial cutting plane being adjustable by interchangeably connecting each of the plurality of probes to the cutter guide, each probe being sized to space the tibial cutting plane from the femur a different distance corresponding to a different available implant thickness.