Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Latest Advances and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plastic surgery; head and neck oncology; oral surgery; malformative surgery; aesthetic surgery; reconstructive surgery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surgery is evolving continuously and our specialty is no different.
During the last few years, we have observed many, perhaps an excessive amount of, advancements in technologies and new tools. Listing them all would be impossible, and so we will only outline the main ones below.
Navigation-guided surgery has become almost irreplaceable, as a road navigator for travellers. Nowadays, 3-D reconstructions of almost all radiological examinations, such as CT scans and MRIs, are indispensable for custom-made prosthesis fitting and surgical planning.
However, the most important advancement in surgery, as in all fields, is certainly artificial intelligence (AI). Image recognition programs now allow us to diagnose very early oral or cutaneous malignant lesions and to differentiate them from benign lesions with a statistically acceptable approximation. Likewise, clustering programs allow us to classify lesions based on the risk of malignancy. Nobody can imagine where new technologies will lead us in the near future. Probably the sentence “future is now” has never been so current.
We therefore call for contributions to this Special Issue “Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Latest Advances and Challenges”. Because “progress” is an opportunity but it is also a challenge.
Dr. Luciano Maria Catalfamo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new technologies
- surgery evolution
- artificial intelligence
- advancements in medicine
- virtual reality
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