facial transplants
World’s First Whole-Eye Transplant Enabled with Materialise 3D Printing Tech
In an extraordinary medical achievement, Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) has played a crucial role in the world’s first successful whole-eye transplant, including a partial face transplant from a single donor. A…
NYU Surgeons Create Realistic 3D Printed Masks for Facial Transplant Donors and Their Families
In the case of some transplants, the organ donor is still alive and can lead a normal life post-surgery, such as someone who donates their kidney. But for many transplant…
3D Printing and Virtual Surgical Planning Aid in the Mayo Clinic’s First Face Transplant
3D printing technologies are helping patients around the world to face the world as they allow for life-changing operations to be performed with a precision never before possible. The Mayo…
World’s Most Complex Face Transplant Operation Made Possible with 3D Modeling & 3D Printing
Fourteen years ago, 27-year-old volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison responded with his colleagues to a call for the Senatobia Fire Department in northwest Mississippi. Inside a burning mobile home on September 5,…
3D Printing Changing the Face of Full Facial Transplant Surgeries
Use your head. It’s a phrase we’ve heard all our lives — and often good advice. Now, scientists are taking this advice quite literally, in 3D printing models of patients’…
