facial reconstruction surgery
3D Printing and Virtual Surgery Help Repair Damage to Patient’s Face
3D printed surgical guides and virtual surgical planning (VSP) have been used in many types of procedures, such as knee replacement, spinal surgery, and reconstruction of chest walls and faces….
3D Printing News Briefs: March 31, 2017
Happy Friday! In today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with business in the front and medical 3D printing in the back, with the Women Startup Challenge Europe…
Brazilian Cancer Patient Receives 3D Printed Facial Prosthetic Created Using Smartphone App
The grief and sorrow that cancer causes around the world on a daily basis is one that most everyone understands, as nearly all of us have been touched by the…
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…
3D Printed Maxillofacial Prosthetics Marry Science and Art
The events leading up to a facial disfigurement are traumatic enough, but add to that the daily experience of being the object of curiosity because of one and it is…
Thanks to 3D Printing, a Badly Burned Young Boy Has a New Nose
Six years ago, a nine-year-old boy named Dalan Jennet fell from a tree onto a live power line, badly burning his entire face. Doctors were able to save him, but…
Montreal: 3D Printed Model Assists in Successful Facial Reconstruction of Patient’s Crushed Cheekbone & Eye Floor
Plastic surgeons, as we know, operate on the literal cutting edge. While their more cosmetic and elective procedures are often very much held up for criticism and even controversy, there…
