Navigational surgery in the craniomaxillofacial field
started to become clinically applicable in the 1990s.
Its distribution into daily routine, however, was limit-
ed due to the fact that all navigation systems narrow-
ly addressed neurosurgical needs, which are basically
to find a 3D structure within a 3D volume. However,
in the field of craniomaxillofacial surgery these
neurosurgery-oriented navigation systems had to be
adapted and the software changed, especially with
respect to preoperative planning, including virtual
model building and following the pre-op plan during
surgery. This changed the workflow in the field of
navigational surgery in the craniomaxillofacial field
so greatly that a separate imaging analysis platform
for pre- and postoperative assessment and quality
control became more and more demanding.
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