Maxillofacial reconstructive medicine and aesthetic medicine advance day after day. The most daring would think that it has some magic, an unreal phenomenon. Nothing could be further from the truth. The answer to the early daily progress of this field of medicine is technology. Adaptable, unstoppable and constantly evolving. Thanks to it, medicine enjoys more resources every day to improve its precision, capacity and quality.
This is the case of the digital application ARtery 3D. Agile and simple, this app was born to be able to visualize in detail the facial arterial anatomy of each patient, and thus improve maxillofacial reconstruction and aesthetic interventions until practically reaching excellence.
ARtery 3D manages to detect and visualize the arteries of the face of any person. It is an autonomous application, which allows the accumulation of information on the facial arterial anatomy of a patient, providing medical security and agility at the time of performing interventions, and the possibility of generating a file with all the generated augmented reality images, unique for each patient.
Dr. Sebastián Mir, a plastic surgeon, acknowledges that “ARtery 3D allows the patient to save the hassle of undergoing certain tests every time he enters a medical center.” “Our patients know about the new techniques, ask about them and want them to be as less invasive as possible. And ARtery 3D is, indicating, for example, where the arteries of the face are before doing infiltrations”, adds Dr. Tai-Sik Yoon, a specialist in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
Dr. Jordi Descarrega, a specialist in plastic surgery, agrees with Sebastián Mir and Tai-Sik Yoon and recognizes the practicality of the application. “For me, the great advantage is that it generates a very high correlation between what is real and what you see in the application, between the arteries that a patient has and those that you see on the mobile or the computer”, he says.
Descarrega adds the necessary concept of peace of mind, since he considers that ARtery 3D allows reducing the margin of error in treatments. “It leaves you calmer before proceeding,” explains Descarrega.
The application was born to facilitate the life and work of the surgeon and improve the treatment of patients. As? With three easy steps. The first step is video scanning. During the first visit, a facial profile is created with the ARtery3D application. The exploration allows the application to have a first base to work on and, after performing the facial magnetic resonance, without contrast or risk, have a real arterial map generated by augmented reality, very useful for any aesthetic, oncological, reconstructive or repairman.
The scanning process, free of radiation, without contrast liquids and in the center that is closest to the patient, will end with the upload of all the images generated to the ARtery3D application platform. With all the information in the application, the surgeon will be able to visualize the practically exact course of the facial arteries through a mobile device.
