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Once the cartilage is gone, the bone, every time she bends her knee, it's bone on bone. it hurts a lot. the next step to measure, cut and find out the best way the implant is going to fit in. measure twice, cut once. it's never more important than now. let's listen in. the sound is the saw as you may have guessed here. take a look here. this is an important device, maybe something you have never seen before. it helps guide the operation. he is using that to dictate how that saw is going to work and how to remove some of the bone, the femur. he's cutting away the head of the femur bone or the t...

It's tough to hear, even for people who have done it for years. when this is said and done, look at the blue areas and what the saw has done, it looks like this. all the bone that was diseased is gone. this is her bone she had coming into the operation, sawed off and perfectly ready for the implantation. they are going to put a new knee here. they get one shot at making this fit. >> these are all trial implants. that's simulating the plastic insert. we measured so far, 10 millimeters. we'll see if it's a good fit for her or not. >> listen in there. he literally said, he's testing it out. 10 mi...