Facial Reconstruction with 3-D Printing
November 26, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
The video in this piece is not for the faint-hearted, but it shows a dramatic application of 3-D printing to medicine—i.e. creating a prosthetic for a British man who lost half of his face due to a squamous cell carcinoma. Also see the second video of Wake Forest University’s Tony Atala discussing tissue regeneration and organ “printing.” MORE WITH VIDEO