Assessment of the Learning Curve for Virtual Surgical Planning in Orbital Fractures.

Tsung-Yen Hsieh, Mena Said, Raj D Dedhia, Mary Roz Timbang, Toby O Steele, Edward Bradley Strong

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Article in Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

Surgical Performance of 3D-Printed Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Patient-Specific Implants and Titanium Mesh in Clinically Matched Orbital Reconstruction: A Cadaveric Study.Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction · 2026
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Computer assistance in modern craniomaxillofacial surgery.Innovative surgical sciences · 2023
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Advantages of a Training Course for Surgical Planning in Virtual Reality for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Crossover Study.JMIR serious games · 2023
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Primary Orbital Reconstruction with Selective Laser Melting (SLM) of Patient-Specific Implants (PSIs): An Overview of 96 Surgically Treated Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
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6 authors.

Tsung-Yen HsiehDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3883-8397

Mena SaidUniversity of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Raj D DedhiaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Mary Roz TimbangDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Toby O SteeleDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Edward Bradley StrongDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virtual surgical planning (VSP) is becoming more widely used in maxillofacial reconstruction and can be

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computer aided surgerymaxillofacial traumaorbital fracturessurgical trainingvirtual surgical planning

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PMID33456685

DOI10.1177/1943387520923940

PMCPMC7797975

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