Navigational Surgery of the Facial Skeleton


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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