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As used herein, “osteotomy” or "osteotomy procedure" or "surgical osteotomy" refers to a surgical operation in which one or more bones are cut to shorten or lengthen them or to change their alignment. The procedure can include removing one or more portions of bone and/or adding one or more portions of bone or bone substitutes. (Search "osteotomy" on Wikipedia.com Feb. 3, 22, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed Feb. 15, 2022.) As used herein, "patient specific osteotomy procedure" refers to an osteotomy procedure that has been adjusted, tailored, modified, or configured to specifically address the anatomy, physiology, condition, abnormalities, needs, or desires of a particular patient. In certain aspects, one patient specific osteotomy procedure may be useable in connection with only one patient. In other aspects, one patient specific osteotomy procedure may be useable with a number of patients having a particular class of characteristics. In certain aspects, a patient specific osteotomy procedure may refer to a non-patient specific osteotomy procedure that includes one or more patient specific implants and/or instrumentation. In another aspects, a patient specific osteotomy procedure may refer to a patient specific osteotomy procedure that includes one or more patient specific implants, patient specific surgical steps, and/or patient specific instrumentation.

Added by DJM Jan 2024