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SUBMITTER: Badiali G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8622626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Badiali Giovanni G Bevini Mirko M Lunari Ottavia O Lovero Elisa E Ruggiero Federica F Bolognesi Federico F Feraboli Liliana L Bianchi Alberto A Marchetti Claudio C
Journal of personalized medicine 20211121 11
In orthognathic surgery, patient-specific osteosynthesis implants (PSIs) represent a novel approach for the reproduction of the virtual surgical planning on the patient. The aim of this study is to analyse the quality of maxillo-mandibular positioning using a hybrid mandible-first mandibular-PSI-guided procedure on twenty-two patients while the upper maxilla was fixed using manually bent stock titanium miniplates. The virtual surgical plan was used to design PSIs and positioning guides, which we ...[more]