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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2001;3:214.

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INTRODUCTION

IN AN EDITORIAL, the editor of the ARCHIVES, Wayne F. Larrabee, Jr,¹ MD, challenged physician scientists to describe their view of the future of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the next millennium. In addition to the opportunities in biomaterials, wound healing, and genetic engineering that he mentioned, I predict that advances in telecommunications and information technology and the growth and development of the Internet will largely color the future of facial plastic surgery. I also predict that future practitioners of the art of facial plastic surgery will have exciting informational tools to help them and their patients. Three specific advances—telefacial plastic surgery, integrated decision support systems, and computer-enhanced, 3-dimensional–guided surgical systems—are most likely to occur.

TELEFACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY

Advances in information and telecommunications technologies will guarantee the arrival of large bandwidth, inexpensive, secure Internet access. Surgeons will routinely monitor their patients postoperatively via small, handheld home computer–enabled cameras or personal digital assistive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

INTEGRATED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

COMPUTER-ENHANCED, 3-DIMENSIONAL–GUIDED SURGICAL SYSTEMS