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A correction guide 1960 can help a surgeon position and/or orient one or more bones, parts of bones, or other parts of a patient as part of an osteotomy procedure in order to reduce the bone, bones, bone parts, or other parts and/or in order to correct a position and/or orientation of the bone, bones, bone parts, or other parts. A compression guide 1970 can help a surgeon compress one or more bones, parts of bones, or other parts of a patient together or against an implant as part of an osteotomy procedure. A positioning guide 1980 can help a surgeon position one or more bones, parts of bones, or other parts of a patient as part of an osteotomy procedure. In certain embodiments, the positioning guide 1980 may be designed and fabricated to be patient-specific. The patient-specific aspects can include a patient-specific bone engagement surface, a predefined angle for reorienting one or more bone or bone parts within one or more planes, a predefined position for bone attachment features 1924 or fasteners 1910, or the like. Alternatively, or in addition, the positioning guide 1980 may be selected from a kit, collection, or repository of a number of positioning guides 1980: each having a different configuration for one or more aspects/attributes of the positioning guide 1980. For example, each member of the repository/kit may include a different positioning angle (repositioning or correction angle), the angles may differ by 2 degrees for example. In such an embodiment, each positioning guide 1980 may not be patient-specific to a particular patient, but may provide the desired amount of positioning to meet the goals of the surgeon. In certain embodiments, a preoperative plan generated based on the present disclosure may include a recommendation for the positioning guide 1980 to be used, even if the recommended positioning guide 1980 is not patient-specific to the particular patient.

Added by DJM Jan 2024