Patent ID: 7967822

Claim:
A method for a total knee arthroplasty procedure comprising: positioning a cutting guide in a position proximate an end of one of a femur or a tibia of a knee joint and adjacent one of a medial portion or a lateral portion of the one of the femur or the tibia, the cutting guide including a slot adapted to receive and guide an oscillating saw blade, the slot extending to less than about one-half of a mediolateral width of a surface to be resected across the end of the one of the femur or the tibia, the oscillating saw blade having at least one cutting edge at a distal end of a long axis of the saw blade; cutting the end of the one of the femur or the tibia by plunging the saw blade through the slot to create at least a portion of at least one resected surface across both the medial portion and the lateral portion of the one of the femur or the tibia; and implanting a total knee arthroplasty implant on the at least one resected surface.