A method to insert an artificial disc in the spine of a patient including:
sequentially inserting at least two components of an artificial disk in
an vertebral interbody space; assembling the components within the
vertebral interbody space to form an artificial disc, and using the
assembled artificial disc as a disc in the vertebral interbody space. The
interbody space is between two adjacent vertebra. The components of the
artificial disc are sequentially surgically inserted posteriorly into the
patient or sequentially inserted with a lateral surgical approach, and
are surgically inserted without resection of facet joints in the spine.