Is There a Difference in Cost Between Standard and Virtual Surgical Planning for Orthognathic Surgery?

Virtually Planned Surgical Guides to Optimize Orthognathic Surgery

“…The third case of validation (Surgical Guide 3 - Figure 2E) was analyzed ing conventional and virtual planning techniques. In this study, authors observed in 43 surgical planning that, in average conventional planning expend 540 minutes, while virtual planning is executed in 190 minutes [16]. Time investment is directly correlated to costs of surgical planning.…”

Clinical effectiveness of late maxillary protraction in cleft lip and palate: A methods paper

“…Once the plan is formulated, one‐ or two‐jaw surgery splints can be 3‐D printed with the press of a button; the surgeon does not have to fabricate the splint with acrylic. The extra cost of virtual surgery has been weighed against the savings in time and found to be cost‐effective if the cost of the splints can be added to the hospital cost of the surgery paid by insurers . As the surgeons shift towards virtual surgery planning, there seems to be an inclination to do more two‐jaw surgeries rather than one‐jaw surgeries, lowering our total number of patients in the surgery cohort.…”

3-H in 3-D: Envisaging Beyond the Current Hype, the Hope and Hurdles of Three-Dimensional “Virtual Planning” in Orthognathic Surgery

“…The use of pre-operative as well as post-operative CBCT (effective dose set at 0.05 mSv), or full skull CT (effective dose set at 0.93 mSv) corresponds to an increase in dose compared with using lateral skull radiography (effective dose set at 0.03 mSv) or dental panoramic tomography (effective dose set at (Stokbro et al, 2014). Here in, CBCT was used in 11 of the selected; CT was used in 4 studies (Borba et al, 2016;Resnick et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016); and both imaging techniques were used in 2 articles. In studies where CBCT imaging was used, the purpose was to create a 3-D model (Hernández-Alfaro & Guijarro-Martínez, 2013;De Riu et al, 2014;Swennen, 2014;Nadjmi et al, 2014;Liebregts et al, 2015a;Van Hemelen et al, 2015;Liebregts et al, 2015b;Stokbro et al, 2016;Wrzosek et al, 2016).…”