This session is meant to educate oral and maxillofacial surgeons and residents on effective ways to increase surgical efficiency. Having completed a fellowship at the Carolinas Centers for Oral, Facial, Cosmetic & Dental Implant Surgery in Charlotte, N.C., under the tutelage of Dr. Brian Farrell, the speaker has learned numerous ways to use virtual surgical plans to dramatically increase the efficiency of orthognathic surgery. This 50-minute session will walk the audience through a single virtual plan, pausing to highlight different information and surgical steps that can be obtained from the virtual plan and employed in the surgery. In essence, this new session will educate the audience not only on the approximately 250 orthognathic surgeries conducted during the speaker's fellowship year but also pearls from the thousands of osteotomies Dr. Farrell has performed.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
Collect more information from virtual surgical planning reports.
Demonstrate performing orthognathic surgery more efficiently.
Identify different options regarding virtual plans and cutting guides.