Š. Pohanka1,2, J. Šimek1,2, V. Dolina1,3, M. Hozová1, P. Novotný1
1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tomáš Baťa Hospital, Zlín, Czch Republic 2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 3
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Summary
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a 3D imaging technology based on an X-ray. For its technical parameters as a low-dose radiation, adequate accuracy, and smaller device size in comparison with multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT), it has become widely used in oral and maxillofacial surgery and dentistry, especially for 3D imaging of teeth and facial skeleton pathologies. Since the tendencies for surgical precision have led to the genesis of hybrid theaters, it was only a question of time when the technical evolution will allow to use the CBCT intraperatively. Particularly neurosurgeons have established its application for spinal surgery in the operating room. Generaly in traumatology, X-ray imaging of the reducted fracture is considered useful. In craniomaxillofacial traumatology, even in the case of an open surgery, the intraoperative use of CBCT can lead to immediate control of the proper reduction and decrease the need for reoperation.
Key words
intraoperative imaging – diagnostic imaging– cone beam computed tomography, cranio-maxillo-facial trauma – craniocerebral trauma – maxillofacial injuries
Pohanka Š, Šimek J, Dolina V et al. Intraoperative cone beam computed tomography in craniomaxillofacial traumatology – a case report. Acta Chir Plast 2025; 67(4): 252–259.