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Advantageously, the present disclosure can facilitate conventional surgical techniques by using the systems disclosed herein. As explained above, the bone attachment features 724 may be configured to facilitate using fasteners 710 deployed in holes 764 to serve the same purpose as the fasteners used in conventional midfoot surgical procedures. One way this can be accomplished is by having a trajectory for fasteners 710 in the bone attachment feature 724 extend parallel to a trajectory for one or the other or for each of the proximal resection feature 758 and the distal resection feature 762. Alternatively, or in addition, the holes 764 can be angled to have the same trajectory a surgeon desires for the resection of bone, such as a resection of a wedge. In this manner, the fasteners 710 in the holes 764 of the bone attachment features 724 can serve to guide a surgeon to ensure that they do not resect beyond the position of the fasteners 710. Advantageously, the embodiments of the resection guide 720 and/or the preoperative planning of the present disclosure can provide a surgeon with the confidence that resection using the resection features 722 will be as planned that costly intraoperative medical imaging can be avoided. This can save costs for the surgical procedures and time and minimize patient exposure to radiation emitted by the medical imaging equipment.

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