Fig. 1

An adult clinical application case of 3D printing customized reconstruction plate and its finite element analysis: (A) The radiographic results of surface tomography shown an occupying lesion with a range of 5 cm×4 cm×4 cm in the right mandible; (B) The radiographic results of computed tomography examination shown the soft tissue intrusion; (C) The red arrow shown the 3D-printed customized reconstruction plate which was 16 mm in width and 2.8 mm in thickness; (D) Intraoperative photographs; (E) The Equivalent Stress distributing on the 3D printing customized reconstruction plate in INC; (F) The Equivalent Stress distributing on the 3D printing customized reconstruction plate in L-MOL; (G) The Equivalent Strain distributing on the bone defect area in the internal fixation areas on the outside in INC; (H) The Equivalent Strain distributing on the bone defect area in the internal fixation areas on the outside in L-MOL.