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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: February 26, 2022

We’ve got a super full week of webinars and events to tell you about for this coming week, including one of our own—Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2022 will be held as…

VA Takes On Shoulder Surgery Using 3D Printed Models

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been one of the country’s biggest and busiest embracers of 3D printing. Making headlines seemingly every few months for the steady…

Plastic Surgeon Uses 3D Printing to Reconstruct Damaged Faces

Unless you are an unbearable egomaniac or are blind, you have looked in the mirror at some point in your life and been unhappy with something you’ve seen. Usually it’s a detail…

Chinese Surgeons 3D Print a Spine Replica to Help with Incredibly Delicate Surgery

Every day it seems like another incredible medical application for 3D printing emerges. Whether it’s affordable customizable prosthetic devices, the actual printing of biological material, or the numerous surgeries that are…

Materialise Turns X-Rays Into Seamless 3D Printed Guides for Knee Replacement Surgery in Belgium

My mother had knee replacement surgery last week, and it was done on an emergency basis. It was enough of a miracle for my siblings and I just to see that she could…

Chinese Man Loses Half His Skull in Fall – Doctors to Return Him to Normal with 3D Printed Titanium Mesh

It’s the greatest fear of them all, for the wives and family members of construction workers, police officers, firemen, and military servicemen. Each year, thousands of blue collar workers are…

3D Printed Ankle Replacement Surgery a Success for Texas Woman

Update July 8th: Stephen Driscoll, Global Marketing Manager of Wright Medical Technology Inc. has clarified this article for us stating that,  “The technology we utilize called PROPHECY® INBONE® is the first…