In craniomaxillofacial (CMF) surgery, a critical step is to reestablish dental occlusion. Digitally establishing new dental occlusion is extremely difficult. It is especially true when the maxilla is segmentalized into 3 pieces, a common procedure in CMF surgery. In this paper, we present a novel midlineguided occlusal optimization (MGO) approach to automatically and efficiently reestablish dental occlusion for 3-piece maxillary surgery. Our MGO approach consists of 2 main steps. The anterior segment of the maxilla is first aligned to the intact mandible using our ergodic midline-match algorithm. The right and left posterior segments are then aligned to the mandible in sequence using an improved iterative surface-based minimum distance mapping algorithm. Our method has been validated using 15 sets of digital dental models. The results showed our algorithm-generated 3-piece articulation is more efficient and effective than the current standard of care method. The results demonstrated our approach’s significant clinical impact and technical contributions.
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Li, J., Ferraz, F., Shen, S., Lo, Y. F., Zhang, X., Yuan, P., … Xia, J. J. (2015). Automated three-piece digital dental articulation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 9349, pp. 488–496). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24553-9_60
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