Computer-Aided Dynamics Intraoperative Navigation in Oral Medicine: A Review

Abstract

Because the oral and maxillofacial areas are adjacent to important organs such as the brain and the eyes and contain a rich network of nerves and blood vessels, this poses a great challenge for surgery of the oral and maxillofacial areas. Traditional treatment protocols rely excessively on the physician's clinical experience and imagination for preoperative planning and do not provide intuitive and reliable intraoperative guidance to the physician during surgery. With the rapid development of medical imaging technology, computer-aided dynamic intraoperative navigation (CADIN) has been introduced into the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery for its ability to accurately locate key anatomical structures intraoperatively and provide the surgeon with a safe surgical boundary in real time. However, the vast majority of surgeries in oral and maxillofacial surgery are still dominated by traditional surgical methods without intraoperative guidance or computer-assisted static navigation (CASN), and CADIN techniques are not widely used. Therefore, this paper presents a systematic review of the application of CADIN technology in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery from 2018-2023 by searching the PubMed database, discusses the problems faced in the actual clinical application of CADIN technology in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery, and proposes solutions to improve the accuracy and application scope of CADIN technology in the future.