Role of robotic surgery in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Robotic surgery had started a new era of telesurgery. The present outlook of this subtle technology has certainly captured the surgeon’s inner quest to avail the least invasive methods. Given the primary results from the patient’s perspective also its adoption in near future is inevitable. Till that time we need to work diligently as a team to draw long term results to convince or silence the critics of robotic head and neck surgery. The Oral and Maxillofacial surgical procedures are complex and have potentially significant immediate postoperative morbidity and risk of mortality. It is therefore important that patients are evaluated carefully and thus there is preoperative planning and there is a immense need of following the same trajectory of preoperative planning to the patient in operation theater.