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Digital revolution in maxillofacial prosthesis advancement: the role of 3D imaging and printing
Sharukeshi Prahaladhan, Afifa R, Shafath Ahmed A and Vidyashree Nandini V
Year : 2025 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 272-277
Received on: 26/09/2025
Revised on: 17/10/2025
Accepted on: 22/10/2025
Published on: 04/11/2025
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Sharukeshi Prahaladhan, Afifa R, Shafath Ahmed A and Vidyashree Nandini V( 2025).
Digital revolution in maxillofacial prosthesis advancement: the role of 3D imaging and printing
. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 10( 6), 272-277.
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Abstract
Maxillofacial prostheses contribute to esthetic and functional rehabilitation following trauma, cancer, congenital deformity, or craniofacial deformity. Imprints of hands and labs with low accuracy and high time requirements once dominated. 3D imaging, CAD, and 3D printing improved accuracy and customization. This paper assesses the digital revolution in maxillofacial prosthesis fabrication with 3D imaging and printing as focal points with developments, applications, advantages, disadvantages, and future directions reviewed. Thematic research analysis of 28 peer-reviewed articles from 2015 through 2025 was undertaken. PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar searched relevant terms. Clinical evidence supports CAD/CAM and 3D imaging for better diagnosis, fabrication, stability, and communication. Virtual surgical planning assists tumor cases as well as accident cases with children's treatment facilitating psychosocial support. DICOM standardization, AI images, and bioprinting customize and enrich regenerative rehab. Expensives expenditures, biocompatibility risks, learning curves, as well as regulatory limitations, suppress these advantages. Rural accessibility can be improved with car-mounted 3D printing tools. Maxillofacial prosthesis rehab is fast becoming digitalized with digitalization revolutionizing maxillofacial prosthesis rehab. 3D imaging, CAD, as well as additive manufacturing, increase accuracy, functionality, as well as customization. Although limitations hinder bioprinting's biocompatibility, AI's accuracy, as well as international access, bioprinting, AI, as well as international access are certain to increase customized prostheses' efficiency as well as wider accessibility.
Keywords
Maxillofacial prosthesis, 3D imaging, 3D printing, CAD/CAM, Digital dentistry, Prosthetic rehabilitation.
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