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"We employ cutting-edge 3D CAD technology to analyze, simulate, meticulously plan, and execute surgical deformity corrections."

Skeletal deformity due to fracture malunion or other reasons such as developmental and degenerative diseases can be corrected by deformity correction surgery. For decades X-rays and computed tomography were used to make simple surgical plans by drawing on films and templating. 

"A patient-specific 3D-printed guide helps us exactly match the 3D plan during bone-cutting surgery."

Skeletal deformity due to fracture malunion or other reasons such as developmental and degenerative diseases can be corrected by deformity correction surgery. For decades X-rays and computed tomography were used to make simple surgical plans by drawing on films and templating. 

Today 3D computer models generated from computed tomography scans are used increasingly to understand the deformity better and make 3D surgical plans. Today computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing help us make patient-specific surgical plans and produce 3D-printed surgical guides which minimizes the risks of deformity correction surgery through precision.

"3D CAD assisted orthopedics technology helps us precisely correct cases of severe deformity and malunion which were once thought risky to operate on."

In the computer-aided planning phase simulations for osteotomies (bone cuts) are made on the 3D computer models of the patient’s bones. These simulations easily help the surgeon to visualize the outcomes. Once the ideal correction plan is decided upon, an anatomy-matching osteotomy guide is also designed with the help of CAD software.

 This patient-specific osteotomy guide is 3D printed and utilized during the surgery to perform the planned osteotomy exactly. As a result, the deformity correction is not affected by poor decisions and technical difficulties encountered during the surgery. This also decreases the surgical time which is desirable for many reasons including decreased frequency of surgical infection and blood loss. 

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The patient-specific planning and osteotomy guides are today the pinnacle of deformity surgery and are quickly becoming common for many deformity correction surgeries. Some common use cases of this state-of-the-art technological novelty are gunstock deformity of the elbow, malunited forearm fractures, wrist fracture malunions, foot bunion correction, and deformities around the knee joint. Among these gunstock deformity correction which is also known as “crooked elbow” or "cubitus varus deformity" and forearm fracture malunion treatments were thought to be risky surgeries, many surgeons did not even think to operate on these cases before 3D patient-specific technology was available. Yet with the help of this technological pinnacle and novelty, even these once-risky cases of malunion and skeletal deformities can be surgically corrected securely and predictably.

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