Precision of fibula positioning guide in mandibular reconstruction with a fibula graft

Head & Face Medicine

Sang-Hoon Kang²  Moon-Key Kim²  Se-Ho Lim¹ 

[1] Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea;Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

关键词: Mandible reconstruction;    Surgical guide;    CAD/CAM;    Computer aided surgery;   

Others  :  1235777
DOI  :  10.1186/s13005-016-0104-2

 received in 2015-07-15, accepted in 2016-01-18,  发布年份 2016

【 摘 要 】

Background

This study examined the usefulness of the fibula positioning guide for boosting the accuracy of mandible reconstructions.

Methods

Thirty mandibular rapid prototype (RP) models were allocated to experimental (N = 15) and control (N = 15) groups. For reference, we prepared a reconstructed mandibular RP model with a three-dimensional printer, based on surgical simulation. In the experimental group, a fibula positioning guide template and fibula cutting guide, based on simulation, were used to reconstruct the mandible with a fibula graft. In the control group, only the fibula cutting guide, with reference to the reconstructed RP mandible model, was used to reconstruct the mandible with a fibula graft. The two mandibular reconstructions were compared to the surgical simulation by registering images with the non-surgical right side of the mandible. On the reconstructed side, 3D measurements were compared between the surgical simulation and actual surgery, and the sum of differences was taken as the total error.

Results

The combined use of the fibula cutting and positioning guides produced a smaller total error (mean ± SD: 10.0 ± 7.9 mm) than the fibula cutting guide alone (12.8 ± 8.8 mm; p = 0.015). The greatest point error was the vertical error at the mesial point of the anterior fibula segment. The anteroposterior and lateral errors were not significantly different between groups. These results showed that these two methods were not significantly different, except in the total and vertical errors.

Conclusions

Considering the CAD/CAM processes required for creating positioning devices, the benefit provided with a positioning guide justified its use over the fibula cutting guide alone.

【 授权许可】

   
2016 Lim et al.

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