Presentation and Evaluation of a Modified Wax-Bite Dental Splint for Surgical Navigation in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
Presentation and Evaluation of a Modified Wax-Bite Dental Splint for Surgical Navigation in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
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DOI:
10.1016/j.joms.2015.03.057
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发表时间:
2015-11-01
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1.9
通讯作者:
Swennen, Gwen R. J.
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作者:
Boeckx, Philippe;Essig, Harald;Swennen, Gwen R. J.
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to introduce and evaluate the use of a modified "waxbite dental splint" for surgical navigation in craniomaxillofacial surgery.Materials and Methods: A 2-layer wax bite dental splint was fabricated with an anterior extension, and 8 gutta percha markers were incorporated in each splint for marker-based pair-point registration. To evaluate the accuracy, the occlusal registration of the wax bite dental splint was performed on 10 artificial skulls. Consecutively, all the skulls were scanned using a standardized cone-beam computed tomography scanning protocol with the 2-layer wax bite dental splint in place. Automatic rigid marker-based pair-point registration was performed using the iPlan CMF software, version 3.0 (Brainlab AG, Feldkirchen, Germany) using 8 gutta percha markers incorporated into the wax bite dental splint. Additionally, the registration accuracy of 6 anatomic skeletal landmarks was measured on each skull.Results: The mean registration error for each wax bite dental splint ranged from 0.78 to 1.01 mm. The overall mean registration error for the wax-bite dental splint-based registration was 0.89 +/- 0.08 mm. The mean registration error for the 6 anatomic landmarks ranged from 1.23 to 2.3 mm. The overall mean registration error was 1.68 +/- 0.28 mm.Conclusion: The results of the present study show the potential for a wax-bite dental splint as an alternative rigid registration method for surgical navigation in craniomaxillofacial surgery. Moreover, from a clinical viewpoint, the method is accurate, user-friendly, inexpensive, and not time-consuming. (C) 2015 American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons