| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T23: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Leveraging Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for High-fidelity Physics-based and Machine Learning Models
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| Presentation Title |
Robotic Bending of Craniomaxillofacial Graft Fixation Plates |
| Author(s) |
Brian Patrick Thurston, Javier Vazquez-Armendariz, Luis Olivas-Alanis, Tobias Mahan, Ciro Rodriguez, Michael Groeber, Stephen Niezgoda, Hany Emam, Roman Skoracki, Jian Cao, Glenn Daehn, David Dean |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Brian Patrick Thurston |
| Abstract Scope |
Large craniomaxillofacial (CMF) fixation plates may be needed within a few days to a week in cases of trauma or advanced stage cancer. While these plates can be 3D printed, the standard-of-care procedure is for the attending surgeon to manually bend an off-the-shelf Ti6V4Al CMF graft fixation plate to fit a patient’s 3D printed model derived from a virtual surgical planning session. The manual bending operation may result in a plate that does not fit the underlying bone well (i.e., there may be small gaps). In addition, repeated bending may introduce damage, reducing the plate´s fatigue life. Our group has developed a treatment planning and fixation plate design software that also integrates a fabrication process to instruct a robotic system to shape fixation plates with an orderly sequence of bending and twisting operations that provide good fit and enhanced material properties. |