Paragraph Number

288

FIG. 12A illustrates a top perspective view of a positioning guide 1200 from a medial side according to one embodiment. The positioning guide 1200 may be similar to or the same as the positioning guide 880. The positioning guide 1200 serves to position one or more bones in relation to another anatomical structure. For example, the positioning guide 1200 may position a metatarsal and/or a cuneiform relative to each other, in particular following an osteotomy to each these bones. Advantageously, a positioning guide 1200 can facilitate placing both bones into a precise relationship relative to each other that matches or sufficiently satisfies the arrangement predetermined in a preoperative plan. Used as designed, a positioning guide 1200 can provide a surgeon with assurance that the repositioning and/or reduction of the bones as planned is being implemented.

Added by DJM Jan 2024