Romanian Journal of Oral Rehabilitation Numarul 4 STEREOLITHIC MODELS IN ORAL AND MAXILLO-FACIAL SURGERY A REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

STEREOLITHIC MODELS IN ORAL AND MAXILLO-FACIAL SURGERY A REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

Mihail Balan, Tiberiu-Alexandru Zaharia, Andrada Doscas, Mihai Liviu Ciofu

ABSTRACT

The constant evolution of technology allows all medical sciences to evolve simultaneously, starting from an initial clinical examination, to exact and up to date image gathering techniques, up until the surgical intervention per se. Medical imaging has been developing at an alarming rate, offering the user a set of images that faithfully reproduces the scanned object, offering the possibility of 3D virtual reconstructions that are brought to life using 3D printing, one of the options for 3D printing being  stereolithography.

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