Patent ID: 8828012

Claim:
A cut guide, comprising: a guide having a guide surface adapted for guiding an osteotomy device; an anterior reference surface spaced from said guide, said anterior reference surface being substantially planar and having a predefined orientation relative to said guide surface; a boom including a pair of upstanding arms and a base, spanning said upstanding arms, the upstanding arms oriented in a raised direction relative to said guide and said anterior reference surface forming an offset of said base from both said guide and said anterior reference surface; and an alignment gauge including a flexible member coupled to said boom at first and second distal to medial spaced locations, having a portion extending beyond the anterior reference surface in a natively biased position, and an indicator, extending from said flexible member and moveable from a first position, indicative of said flexible member portion maintaining said natively biased position, to a second position, indicative of the anterior reference surface being positioned flush with a surface of a bone.