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In particular, a unique resection guide can be designed, developed and fabricated for each patient (e.g. patient-specific). The ability of a surgeon and/or technician to predetermine where, and how to orient the resection feature(s) provides for an infinite number of different combinations for making a variety of different osteotomies in a bone. Consequently, a surgeon can predetermine an angle to the osteotomy to define or set to achieve a desired type and/or amount of correction for a bone. Furthermore, the surgeon can make this predetermination based on medical imaging taken of the patient’s foot such that the resection guide is unique to a particular patient. In one embodiment, a surgeon may specify aspects of the resection guide in a prescription for the design and/or fabrication of the resection guide. Depending on the nature of the correction to be performed a surgeon and/or a technician may define a resection guide to produce one of a uniplanar correction, a biplanar correction, and a triplane correction.

Added by DJM Jan 2024