Streamlining the manufacture of custom titanium orbital plates with a stereolithographic three-dimensional printed model

In an earlier paper, we described the use of 3-dimensional reformatted images, stereolithographic models, and rapid prototyping, for reconstruction of the orbital floor or defects of the medial wall with a custom titanium Plate1. When these processes are combined it allows us to construct a titanium implant that precisely fits and reconstructs the contour of the bony defect.2 We also described direct and indirect methods to virtually reconstruct the orbital floor using software that processes data from computed tomography (CT).

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