title: [Digital diagnosis and treatment system for facial prostheses].
abstract: Conventional diagnosis and treatment for facial prostheses have setbacks and limitations, including complicated procedure, inefficiency, low accuracy and poor esthetics, which could not meet the demand for high quality of the prostheses of the patients. With the technology of the computer aided design and computer aided manufacture (CAD/CAM), the new era for diagnosis and treatment for facial prostheses has been started since the 1990's. The digital diagnosis and treatment system for facial prostheses has been formed during these ten years, which including the digital data acquisition of the facial defect, CAD for facial prostheses, rapid fabrication of the prostheses. This new system will be the development direction and mainstream technology in the future.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Prosthodontics, The Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Yao-yang
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Fu-qiang
authors.initials: FQ
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011474:Prosthesis Design