British doctors used the necessary implants and components, which they printed on a XNUMXD printer, to restore the face of a patient who had suffered severe injuries and disfigurement after a motorcycle accident. He is one of the first patients in the world, on whom it is done application of the new revolutionary surgery using exclusively printed parts.
The surgery, led by the maniac surgeon Adrian Sogar, according to the BBC, was made at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, at 29 Steven Power of Cardiff, who, despite having worn a helmet, suffered multiple injuries in the serious traffic that became 2012, his cheeks, his jaw, his nose and his skull.
The doctors had to break the bones of his face again, before they proceeded to reconstruct-print his new face. As Stephen Power said, the operation "changed his life", as until then he had to wear a hat and glasses to hide his wounds.
The medical team used tomographies to design and then print a symmetric three-dimensional model of the patient's skull. He then also printed all the necessary accessories needed for bone attachment, as well as the necessary titanium implants.
Three-dimensional printing is constantly gaining ground in various fields, including medicine. As Adrian Sogar said, "thanks to printing, the results were incomparable with everything that had happened in the past. Printing allows us to be much more accurate and not to guess as we have before. "
The whole procedure, which took eight hours in the operating room, was the work of the Welsh Center for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery, which has emerged from cooperation of the Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, Morriston Hospital, Swansea and Cardiff Metropolitan University. The next step is expected to be wider use of the new technology in Britain's NHS, which will happen as its costs gradually fall.
News Room «Profit»With information from RES - AMP
