Virtual Surgery: Facing the Future!
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In 1979, Hounsfield and Cormack won the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology for their part in the invention of the CT scanner (Peeters et al, 1979). These images allowed human anatomy to be viewed in
3 dimensions for the first time, revolutionising medicine. Virtual surgical planning was used for the first time in craniofacial surgery during the 1980’s (Vannier et al, 1984). With increasing popularity, computer technology now encompasses a number of uses
in addition to surgical planning, across a number of specialities such as neurosurgery, cardiothoracics, plastics, ENT and orthopaedics. This report describes the use of a virtual surgical planning in an interesting maxillofacial case.
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