We produce cutting guides which mainly are being used to surgeries which involves bone.

I collaboration with the responsible surgeon we plan how the osteotomies will be placed and angled to ensure the best possible result of the surgery. Afterwards we design and produce cutting guides which will be mounted on the patient's bone during the surgery. The cutting guide precisely indicate where the osteotomy must be places on the bone to ensure the planned result.

Below two of our common clinical procedures are described. We also deliver to other cases – call us and hear more.

We deliver cutting guides for mandible and maxilla reconstruction, where autologous bone grafts from the patient's fibula, scapula or crista are used.

By the use of cutting guides the ischemia time during the operation is shortened by 45-60 minutes. This is partly on account of the fixation plates being bend to the correct shape before the surgery by the use of a 3D printed model of the planned reconstruction; and partly because of the precision of the osteotomies.

In a year we produce cutting guides for around 30 patients, who receive a mandible or maxilla reconstruction.

With a cutting guide the skull is cut into the segments planned before the surgery. The segments are then placed in a reposition guide, which clearly indicate where each segment must be placed.

The reposition guide allows the surgeon to work with a larger number of skull segments than normally would be possible, if the surgery is done freely by hand.

Besides easing the surgeons work with a precise guide for the planned osteotomies and providing the means for fixating the bone segments, the final result will very precisely resemble the what was planned before he surgery. 

In a year we produce cutting guides for around 20 patients, who receive craniofacial surgery.