title: Three-dimensional surgical guide for frontal-nasal-ethmoid-vomer disjunction in Le Fort III osteotomy.
abstract: The aim of this article was to describe the achievement and the clinical use of a new three-dimensional surgical guide for frontal-nasal-ethmoid-vomer osteotomy. The three-dimensional guide is based on a three-dimensional rapid prototyping model and provides the three-dimensional spatial orientation and depth for the frontonasal osteotome. The method was applied to a 7-year-old patient with Apert syndrome. This technique allowed a critical osteotomy path in Le Fort III surgery to be transferred in a secure, fast, and cost-effective way from the three-dimensional rapid prototyping model to the operating room.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. raphael.olszewski@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Olszewski
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reychler
mesh_terms: D000168:Acrocephalosyndactylia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D019340:Osteotomy, Le Fort; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed