A surgical shaver blade is provided with a stationary elongated outer tube, having a cutting window at its distal tip and a rotatable elongated inner tube having a cutting window at its distal tip. Each cutting window is not symmetrical about any line in a sectional view through the window normal to the tube axis. In a preferred embodiment the cutting edges of each window have a plurality of teeth, the teeth of one lateral cutting edge being offset axially from the teeth of the other lateral edge so that the teeth of one edge align axially with the valleys between teeth on the opposite edge. When the shaver is used in oscillate mode, the teeth of one direction of rotation align with tissue that was between teeth during the previous opposite direction rotation thereby enhancing the ability of the teeth to penetrate the tissue and prevent its ejection from the cutting window as the cutting edges approach. In another embodiment the outer window is asymmetric without teeth and the inner window is asymmetric with teeth. In yet another embodiment only the inner cutting edges are asymmetric. The cutting edges are formed in a single grinding operation or multiple grinding operations using a multi-axis CNC grinding machine, or electrochemically.