Patent ID: 7749276

Claim:
A surgical kit for prosthetic implants for replacing portions of bones of a joint, wherein a hole is formed in the bone to receive a part of the implant, the kit comprising: a first prosthetic implant component having a bone-contacting surface, an exposed articulating surface opposite the bone-contacting surface and a mounting member extending outward from the bone-contacting surface; a first prosthetic trial component having a bone-contacting surface, an exposed articulating surface opposite the bone-contacting surface and a mounting member extending outward from the bone-contacting surface; a bone protector having a bone-contacting surface, an exposed bearing surface opposite the bone-contacting surface and a mounting member extending outward from the bone-contacting surface; wherein the mounting members of each of said trial, said first implant, and said bone protector are similarly sized and shaped so that the bone protector mounting member, first prosthetic implant mounting member and first prosthetic trial component mounting member each may be separately received in the same hole in the bone; wherein the bone-contacting surfaces of the implant trial, implant and bone protector are sized and shaped to be separately mountable to the same bone surface; and wherein the bearing surface of the bone protector has a different shape than the articulating surfaces of the prosthetic implant component and prosthetic trial component and is free from any structure for affixing another component to the bone protector.