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The bone engagement feature 928 serves to facilitate registration of the bone tunnel guide 920 to a surface of a bone and/or to one or more landmarks of the bone. The bone tunnel guide 920 can include one, two, or more bone engagement features 928. In the illustrated embodiment, the bone tunnel guide 920 includes two bone engagement features 928a,928b. A bone engagement feature 928, may be sized, shaped, positioned, and/or oriented to engage at least a portion of a bone of a patient such that the bone engagement feature 928 positions the bone tunnel guide 920 in a position that corresponds to a modeled position of a bone tunnel guide model engaging a bone model. The bone model may be a model of at least a portion of a bone of a patient. In the bone tunnel guide model, the bone engagement feature 928 are also models. The modeled bone engagement feature(s) 928 can be created when the bone tunnel guide 920 is fabricated.

Added by DJM Jan 2024