Groundbreaking
Surgical Procedure Uses 3D
Printing to
Repair Injuries
Doctors at a United Kingdom hospital have broken
Surgical boundaries by reconstructing the face of a motorcycle-crash survivor using
3D-printing tech**logy.
Stephen Power, 29, suffered severe
Injuries while returning home with friends in Wales nearly two years ago. He broke both of his cheekbones, eye sockets and his upper jaw, in addition to fracturing his skull. Power also broke both of his arms, and banged his right leg up so badly that it needed a bone graft.
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Power's life was saved thanks to emergency surgery, but doctors feared doing further damage to the sight in his left eye, which had mostly recovered. This meant that they were **t able to put his left cheekbone back in the right place, and did **t attempt to reconstruct the bones around the eye's socket.
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