Accurate prediction of facial soft-tissue changes following orthognathic
surgery is crucial for improving surgical outcome. However, the accuracy of
current prediction methods still requires further improvement in clinically
critical regions, especially the lips. We develop a novel incremental simulation
approach using finite element method (FEM) with realistic lip sliding effect to
improve the prediction accuracy in the area around the lips. First, lip-detailed
patient-specific FE mesh is generated based on accurately digitized lip surface
landmarks. Second, an improved facial soft-tissue change simulation method is
developed by applying a lip sliding effect in addition to the mucosa sliding
effect. The soft-tissue change is then simulated incrementally to facilitate a
natural transition of the facial change and improve the effectiveness of the
sliding effects. A preliminary evaluation of prediction accuracy was conducted
using retrospective clinical data. The results showed that there was a
significant prediction accuracy improvement in the lip region when the realistic
lip sliding effect was applied along with the mucosa sliding effect.
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to reduce the experience dependence during the orthognathic surgical planning that involves virtually simulating the corrective procedure for jaw deformities.
Methods
We introduce a geometric deep learning framework for generating reference facial bone shape models for objective guidance in surgical planning. First, we propose a surface deformation network to warp a patient's deformed bone to a set of normal bones for generating a dictionary of patient‐specific normal bony shapes. Subsequently, sparse representation learning is employed to estimate a reference shape model based on the dictionary.
Results
We evaluated our method on a clinical dataset containing 24 patients, and compared it with a state‐of‐the‐art method that relies on landmark‐based sparse representation. Our method yields significantly higher accuracy than the competing method for estimating normal jaws and maintains the midfaces of patients’ facial bones as well as the conventional way.
Conclusions
Experimental results indicate that our method generates accurate shape models that meet clinical standards.
The purpose of this study was to produce reliable estimations of fluctuating facial asymmetry in a normal population. Fifty-four computed tomography (CT) facial models of average-looking and symmetrical Chinese subjects with a class I occlusion were used in this study. Eleven midline landmarks and 12 pairs of bilateral landmarks were digitized. The repeatability of the landmark digitization was first evaluated. A Procrustes analysis was then used to measure the fluctuating asymmetry of each CT model, after all of the models had been scaled to the average face size of the study sample. A principal component analysis was finally used to establish the direction of the fluctuating asymmetries. The results showed that there was excellent absolute agreement among the three repeated measurements. The mean fluctuating asymmetry of the average-size face varied at each anthropometric landmark site, ranging from 1.0mm to 2.8mm. At the 95% upper limit, the asymmetries ranged from 2.2mm to 5.7mm. Most of the asymmetry of the midline structures was mediolateral, while the asymmetry of the bilateral landmarks was more equally distributed. These values are for the average face. People with larger faces will have higher values, while subjects with smaller faces will have lower values.
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