Using a robot in craniofacial surgery might seem to be a rather far fetched idea. However, a high level of precision, skill and experience is necessary in order to perform maxillofacial interventions successfully and harmonically.Thus the Institute of Process Control and Robotics has devised a c o m p l e x computer aided surgical system which supports the surgeon before and during the operation. On the one hand preoperative plans can be generated by using a threedimensional computer model o f the patient's skull. On the other hand the b e s t planning device is rather useless if there is n o adequate means at hand to intraoperatively transpose the established plan with the required accuracy. In this paper we present our surgical robotic system for craniofacial surgery and g i v e an insight into some of its features,
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