Patent ID: 7997174

Claim:
A device for trimming an osteochondral plug graft to an implantable configuration, comprising: a housing with a housing through bore and a first slot traversing the housing through the bore and a second slot positioned below said first slot traversing the housing through the bore; a base plate insertable into the first slot, the base plate comprising a plurality of different size openings to pare an osteochondral plug grafts to different sizes; a blade plate insertable into said second slot, said blade plate having a plurality of different sized openings configured to correspond to the plurality of different size openings in said base plate so as to pair with said opening in said base plate; a channeled cutting blade firmly attached to said blade plate when inserted into a pair of aligned correspondingly sized openings of said base plate and said blade plate; an osteochondral plug graft holding sleeve nestled within the housing through bore to hold an osteochondral plug graft aligned within the sleeve through bore; and the channeled cutting blade poised at the sleeve through bore, wherein the cutting blade has a leading cutting edge configured to pare the osteochondral plug graft held within the sleeve when the blade is activated to slide fit into the sleeve through bore and to correspondingly impose the cutting blade along a surface of the osteochondral plug graft that is positioned within the bore.