3D printing technology has helped to reconstruct the facial injuries that a 29-year-old motorcycle accident victim sustained. Stephen Power, from Cardiff, Wales, is possibly the first trauma patient to have 3D printing used at every…
Thanks to recent technology advancements, iPhones today have integrated heart monitors, which allow you to measure your heart rate using a camera. But 15-year-old Suman Mulumudi has taken this technology a step further, using a…
3D printing is making complicated surgeries safer. A new method of 3D printing is aiding surgeons in complicated liver surgeries. This method involves creating an accurate replica of a patient’s liver, which is then 3D…
Getting a fresh glass of water is something that most of us don’t think twice about. For many people in underdeveloped countries though, access to fresh drinking water is a privilege that they don’t have….
Doctors in the Guangdong province of China have just completed a complex bone fracture fixation surgery, aided in part by 3D printing technology. The 43-year-old patient, a man with the surname of Zhang, had fallen…
It looks like 3D printing is going to the dogs! UK-based company Fusion Implants, a spinoff company from the University of Liverpool, has developed a 3D printed device to help improve surgery for dogs who…
3D printing is able to assist in complex surgeries, having been used to create prototypes and replacements, as well as aiding in reconstructive surgery. Now, this technology is making its way into cardiology. An implantable…
3D printing is being used to make major advancements in the medical field. Surgeons have been finding 3D printing to be extremely useful in surgeries which may be more complex or diverse than usual. In…
Heart defects are among the most common types of birth defects. It is estimated that nearly 1 percent of babies born each year will have congenital heart defects. 14-month-old Roland Lian Cun Bawi was born…
During a tragic-work related accident that had devastating results, Christian Call lost part of his finger. With life-like prosthetics out of the question, due to the price and the fact that none of them really…