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228

Advantageously, the models, methods, systems, and/or apparatuses of the present disclosure facilitate mapping or translating between a virtual or model environment and/or instrumentation to a physical or real world environment for a surgical procedure. The present disclosure provides this feature or benefit by providing an apparatus, system, and method, that enables a surgeon to identify, create, form, and/or use a reference feature for a surgical procedure. The reference feature provides a reference and/or starting point on, in, or associated with anatomy of a patient such that steps, stages, features, or aspects planned and configured within the model can be accurately performed on, with, or to the anatomy of the patient. In certain embodiments, one or more steps of a surgical procedure can be done in connection with or in relation to the reference feature.

Added by DJM Jan 2024