ABSTRACT

Patients with craniofacial defects or resulting from injury can do cranioplasty. Through of prosthesis, patients who do this surgery, get protection and aesthetic restoration. Thus, the manufacturing of these prostheses has been made subject of various studies, where innovations like new biomaterials, improved techniques for image acquisition, has evolved considerably in recent years. Due to the complexity of its forms generates iterations in the development process, where there are repetitions for changes in shape of the prosthesis during the stages of manufacturing. However, the objective of this study is to propose the establishment of a procedure that consists of image capture from the defective region of the patient, until to obtain the final product. All this monitored by 3D scanning methods, where one can evaluate both the mold and the part model, during the manufacturing steps, thus avoiding the iterations of design and process. Thus, one can acquire a cranial prosthesis quickly and according to the 3D model, acquired early in the process.