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Filter by:Immediate reconstruction and dental rehabilitation of maxillofacial ablative defects with patient specific reconstruction plates, dental implants, and immediate load provisional screw-retained prosthesis will improve patient short and long term outcomes and improve patient quality of life. Utilizing current technologic advances, patients undergoing large ablative procedures for benign head and neck pathology can now not only have immediate bone and soft tissue reconstruction, but dental rehabilitation as well. Using virtual surgical planning, patient specific selective laser melded reconstruction plates, and dental implants, a screw-retained provisional dental restoration can be fabricated and placed during a one-stage procedure with minimal to no intra-operative prosthetic work required.
The aim is to prospectively assess the association between clinical parameters and the presence of maxillofacial fractures in trauma patients admitted to the emergency department. Our hypothesis is that a clinical decision aid of critical parameters reduces unnecessary produced CT scans in maxillofacial trauma patients.
Medical titanium plates are routinely used in fixing mobilized bone segments in jaw surgeries. Generally these plates are commercialized with standard construction specifications. Thus they should be repeatedly bended and arched to match the contour of anchored jaw bones before located in place and fastened by screws. To prevent stress fatigue induced by plate bending and improve structural design, we utilized the three-dimensional printing technique and developed a new production procedure in fabricating customized titanium plates according to each patient's specific skeletal contours and dimensions derived from medical imaging data. In general, the three-dimensional printing of customized implants are expected to facilitate surgical operation, reduce application duration and improve precise restoration. Up until now, the application of three-dimensional printing of titanium fixation plates in jaw surgery has been available only at two centers globally. The published preliminary work have proved the prospect of customized titanium plates in promoting mandibular reconstruction surgery and upper maxilla orthognathic surgery though their printed titanium plates looked rather bulky and the sample sizes were small and there is still lack of qualified randomized controlled trials between the printed and the conventional titanium plates. To better benefit from the burgeoning use of three-dimensional printing in health care, it is imperative to conduct a feasibility study in exploring the application of three-dimensional printing of titanium fixation plates in jaw surgery based on our patients. The aim of the study is to conduct a case series study focusing on the feasibility and safety of applying three-dimensional printed titanium plates in jaw reconstruction surgery and orthognathic surgery. The outcome measures include the success rate, potential adverse events and accuracy. A sample size of 48 subjects will be recruited prospectively. Considering the facts that titanium plates are widely used in jaw surgery and our unit is the largest oral and maxillofacial surgery center in Hong Kong, the well-designed customized titanium plate is therefore with great potential benefit for the patients in our population. Furthermore, the well-developed three-dimensional manufacturing protocol could also be applied in other relevant medical areas and push forward the personalized medicine era in the future.
Combined application of surgery planning software and rapid prototyping technology and preshaped titanium plates can effectively promote the accuracy of the diagnosis and treatment of bilateral maxillofacial post traumatic deformities, reduce operation time and improve surgical effect.
This study proposes to develop a computer-based software tool that will allow surgeons to plan and simulate surgery for patients with jaw trauma.
Investigator initial study to evaluate the use of preoperative computer modeling and the intraoperative navigation to guide reconstruction of the maxillofacial skeleton.