This color atlas and manual provides clinicians with systematic standardized but also
individualized step-by-step guidance on 3D virtual diagnosis treatment planning and outcome
assessment in patients undergoing orthognathic surgery for maxillofacial deformities. Drawing
on 20 years of experience the authors elucidate the clinical potential of the approach while
also highlighting current pitfalls and limitations. The opening two chapters discuss the 3D
imaging workflow and its integration into daily clinical routine and comprehensively describe
cone-beam CT virtual diagnosis. The stepwise 3D virtual planning of orthognathic surgery and
transfer of the 3D virtual treatment plan to the patient in the operating room are then
thoroughly explained and the unprecedented potential of 3D virtual evaluation of treatment
outcome documented. Finally after provision of all this essential background information the
closing chapter illustrates the application of the 3D virtual approach in different types of
maxillofacial deformity. Orthodontists and orthognathic and orthofacial surgeons will find 3D
Virtual Treatment Planning of Orthognathic Surgery to be a superb guide and resource.
