Computer guided surgery allows patients with cancer or trauma recover their 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, even though they have already begun to use stem cells

Madrid, April 2012.- A new technique of computer-guided surgery allows you to rebuild the jaw in patients with oral cancer or large trauma and they canfor the first time, recover all their dentition; The first results of this technique has been tested in a study by Dr. Jose Luis Cebrian, Vice President of the Spanish society of Oral surgery and maxillofacial surgery (SECOM), and final conclusions will be announced at the 14th Congress of Oral surgery and implantology, which is held in Badajoz on May 31 and June 1 next.

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 upper and the lower jaw may recover the masticatory function 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 has already begun. This treatment satisfaction rates are high, allowing the cancer patient regain their quality of life and eat normally after radiotherapy treatment ”, 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 to open the gum ” adds doctor Cebrián.

Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons have information about the anatomy of the patient before the intervention thanks to virtual surgery planning, with what is known in advance the exact location of the implant. thus gain in time, safety, confidence and precision, achieving a perfect fit of the implant, with what the patient is also benefited since the 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 Institute maxillofacial surgery of the Centro Médico Teknon, Barcelona has already carried out the first implants with stem cells from the patient himself is to regenerate parts of the jaw without removing bone from other parts of the body. The reconstruction is made possible by a simulator 3D, planned before the intervention to achieve greater success.

Congress of Oral surgery and implantology

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

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

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