Sun Jian, Jiao Ting, Xiong Yao-yang, Zhang Fu-qiang
Dept. of Prosthodontics, The Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.
Hua Xi Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2010 Oct;28(5):461-3.
Conventional diagnosis and treatment for facial prostheses have setbacks and limitations, including complicated procedure, inefficiency, low accuracy and poor esthetics, which could not meet the demand for high quality of the prostheses of the patients. With the technology of the computer aided design and computer aided manufacture (CAD/CAM), the new era for diagnosis and treatment for facial prostheses has been started since the 1990's. The digital diagnosis and treatment system for facial prostheses has been formed during these ten years, which including the digital data acquisition of the facial defect, CAD for facial prostheses, rapid fabrication of the prostheses. This new system will be the development direction and mainstream technology in the future.
面部假体的传统诊断和治疗存在不足和局限性，包括操作复杂、效率低下、准确性低和美观性差等，无法满足患者对高质量假体的需求。随着计算机辅助设计和计算机辅助制造（CAD/CAM）技术的出现，自20世纪90年代以来，面部假体诊断和治疗的新时代已经开启。在这十年间形成了面部假体数字诊断和治疗系统，其包括面部缺损的数字数据采集、面部假体的计算机辅助设计以及假体的快速制造。这一新系统将是未来的发展方向和主流技术。
