Biostereometrics and computergraphics for patients with craniofacial malformations: diagnosis and treatment planning.

Utilizing the techniques of biostereometric photography and current state-of-the-art computergraphics, topographic contourgrams have been generated in a series of patients with complex craniofacial malformations. These contourgrams are considered useful in diagnosis and treatment planning and as an aid in postoperative follow-up. We hope that the technique will provide a means to study longitudinal growth in unoperated and operated patients with craniofacial malformations. Comparisons between these groups and normal patients are currently being investigated.