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317

Advantageously, the present disclosure can facilitate conventional surgical techniques by using the systems disclosed herein. As explained above, the bone attachment features 1024 may be configured to facilitate using fasteners 1010 deployed in holes 1056 to serve the same purpose as the fasteners used in conventional foot and ankle surgical procedures. Alternatively, or in addition, the holes 1056 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 1010 in the holes 1056 of the bone attachment features 1024 can serve to guide a surgeon to ensure a surgeon that they do not resect beyond the position of the fasteners 1010. Advantageously, the embodiments of the resection guide 920 and/or the preoperative planning of the present disclosure can provide a surgeon with the confidence that resection using the resection features 1022 will be as planned and thus costly intraoperative medical imaging may be avoided. This can save costs for the surgical procedures and time and minimize patient exposure to radiation emitted by the medical imaging equipment.

Added by DJM Jan 2024