maxillofacial reconstruction
New Partnerships for Renishaw, Dassault Systèmes Center on Digital Technology
The ADT Foundation was founded in 2010 as an organization dedicated to advancing education in the field of head and neck reconstruction – particularly involving digital technology. One of its main…
Welsh Medical Team Combines Bone Grafts and 3D Printing for Patient-Specific Jaw Reconstruction
Last year, researchers at the Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales introduced the ADEPT (Additive-manufacture for Design-led Efficient Patient Treatment) project, which was designed for patients suffering from diseases or significant…
Stratasys 3D Printing Advances Maxillofacial Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
As humans, our faces are very important to us. I’m not talking about in a physical sense, although that is certainly true as well, but in terms of how they…
Renishaw Helps to Create 3D Printed Orbital Implant for Complex Surgery in Nepal
When a deadly, 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in April of 2015, killing thousands of people, the 3D printing community jumped right in to offer assistance, from a 3D printable…
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…
Welsh Researchers Invent New Method for 3D Printing Maxillofacial Implants
Welsh researchers and experts at Swansea-based, 750-bed Morriston Hospital have revealed a project called ADEPT, or Additive-manufacture for Design-led Efficient Patient Treatment, which allows surgeons to create 3D printed implants…
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…
Malaysian Surgeon Performs Country’s First Facial Implant Using 3D Printing
The medical application of 3D printing is one of the most uplifting aspects of this technology. And 3D printing has proven to be life-altering for physicians, who seek the optimal…
3D Systems and 3D Printing Aid in the Effort to Reconstruct Young Zimbabwean Man’s Face
Nothing can be done to erase the trauma experienced by Blessing Makwera, a native of Zimbabwe whose life was changed irrevocably when a land mine exploded in his face when…
