Computer guided surgery helps patients with cancer or trauma recover dentition.

-This new technology manages to rebuild entire JAWS with greater precision and accuracy

– implants are made with other parts of the body bone grafts, although they have already begun to use stem cell

Madrid, April 2012.- A new technique of computer-guided surgery allows to reconstruct the jaw in patients with oral cancer or major injuries and that they canfor the first time, recover whole dentition. The first results of this technique have been analysed in a study by Dr. José Luis Cebrián, Vice President of the Spanish society of surgery Oral and maxillofacial (SECOM), and the final conclusions will be announced at the 14th Congress of Oral surgery and implantology, held in Badajoz the next 31 May and 1 June.

Study shows how the program virtually plan the placement of implants in the exact place in which are placed the implant-supported prosthesis ” explains the doctor Cebrián. In this way, patients who had lost much of the bones of the jaw and the jaw may recover the function of the masticatory apparatus and all of his teeth. Mandibular regeneration is achieved through the use of other parts of the patient’s body bone grafts, as the fibula or iliac Crest ”, says, although experiments with stem cells have already been initiated. This treatment satisfaction rates are high, allowing the cancer patient regain their quality of life and eat normally after a treatment of radiotherapy ”, adds.

This technical revolutionary for oral surgery and implantology is already being implemented in several centres of Spain, as the La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The program makes the flaps to measure and creates a splint of bone support that is placed on the patient to make implants with greater precision and accuracy. Is not necessary nor open gum ” adds doctor Cebrián.

Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons have information about the anatomy of the patient prior to the intervention thanks to virtual surgery planning, with what is known in advance the exact location of the implant. thus gain in time, security, confidence and precision, achieving a perfect fit of the implant, with what the patient also see benefit that recovery is shorter than ”, explains the Vice-President of SECOM.

Other techniques, such as tissue engineering, are enabling major advances in the reconstruction of the jaw. Dr. Federico Hernández Alfaro, director of the maxillofacial Institute of the Teknon medical centre in Barcelona, has already carried out the first implants with the patient’s own stem cells is to regenerate parts of the jaw without need to remove bone from other parts of the body. The reconstruction is made possible by a simulator 3D, that plan before the intervention to achieve greater success.

Congress of Oral surgery and implantology

Computer-guided surgery and tissue engineering will be some of the advances that will be presented at the XIV Congress of Oral surgery and implantology the SECOM. Guided surgery applied to oncologic patients and flaps to measure will be the topic that will get the doctor Dennis Rohner, expert in reconstructive maxillofacial surgery in Switzerland.

For more information about the Congress: http://www.secom.org/congresobadajoz/

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