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. 2022 Apr 24;11(9):2385. doi: 10.3390/jcm11092385

Table 1.

Summary of major 3D applications in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Major fields in OMFS impacted by 3D printing technologies. VSP—virtual surgical planning. CBCT—cone beam computed tomography. PSI—patient specific implants. TJR—total joint replacment.

Application References
3D planning and manufacturing for management of facial trauma pre-bending of fixation plates on anatomical models Mandible—[55]
Midface—[56,57,58]
Orbit—[59,60,61,62,63]
production of custom plating based on VSP Mandible—[53,64,65,66]
Midface—[56,67]
Orbit—[68]
3D Planning and Manufacturing in Orthognathic Surgery Composite models based on fiducial markers [69,70,71]
Composite models based on repeated CBCT scans and data obtained using oral scanners [72,73,74,75,76,77,78]
VSP-based splints and cutting guides [79,80,81,82,83,84]
VSP design for Splintless\waferless surgery [80,85,86,87]
3D-Based Digitization and Planning for Maxillofacial Tumor Resection and Reconstruction 3D study models of resection sites [88,89]
Osteotomy guides [45,90,91]
Pre-bending of Reconstruction plates [92,93,94]
VSP-based PSIs [90,95,96,97,98,99]
Total Joint Replacement (TJR) in the Era of 3D Printing Design of cutting guides for TJR [100,101,102,103]
Custom and VSP-based TJR implants [100,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111]