A surgical navigated cutting guide for mandibular osteotomies: accuracy and reproducibility of an image-guided mandibular osteotomy.
Timon Peter Ter BraakSusan Gijsbertje Brouwer de KoningMaarten Jan Antony van AlphenFerdinand van der HeijdenWillem Hans SchreuderRobert Leonardus Petrus van VeenMunir Baris KarakullukcuPublished in: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery (2020)
The proposed EM navigated cutting guide for mandibular osteotomies demonstrated accurate positioning of the cutting plane according to the preoperative virtual surgical plan with respect to distance, yaw and roll angles. This novel approach has the potential to make the use of 3D-printed cutting guides obsolete, thereby decreasing the interval between diagnosis and surgery, reduce cost and allow for adaptation of the virtual plan in case of rapid tumor proliferation or unanticipated in situ deviations from the preoperative CT/MR imaging.