Issue | Reported by the interviewee | Reported in the literature | |
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1 | Useful tool in planning and exploring other options. | ✓ | (8,9) |
2 | Helps with teaching and learning for students and patients. | ✓ | (8,10) |
3 | Accuracy, efficiency, quality are all potential advantages. | ✓ | (11,12,12-14) |
4 | Potential for improved functional outcome: planning for dental implants, dental rehabilitation, better occlusion, less TMJ dysfunction and improved mandibular strength and cosmetic outcome. | ✓ | (14,15) |
5 | Potential for reducing Operating Room time. | ✓ | (16,17) |
6 | Communication between team members can be facilitated by the technology. | ✓ | (9) |
7 | Increase in surgeon confidence. | ✓ | (17) |
8 | Initial cost of the setup of the technology is a disadvantage but can be outweighed by the longterm benefits. | ✓ | (18)(19) |
9 | Accessibility and availability of the resource is a disadvantage. | ✓ | (17) |
10 | Time constraint is a disadvantage which includes time to learn the technology, collaborate and plan each case and turnaround and production time between initial case planning and scheduled surgery. | ✓ | (18) |
11 | There is minimal quantitative research available to prove the accuracy, benefits and functional outcome of the patients when digital surgical design and simulation is used. There is also a need for a cost-benefit analysis. | ✓ | (20) |
12 | Surgical design and simulation can bring more of a team approach. | ✓ | (17) |
13 | Surgical design and simulation is not included in medical student training. | ✓ | |
14 | There is cultural resistance to the surgical design and simulation technology. | ✓ | |
15 | The field of surgical design and simulation is a work in progress. | ✓ |