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3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a neat story out of Britain, with good news about long-term success for the patient involved, and for others who might benefit from similar procedures: three years ago, surgeon Craig Gerrand successfully printed and implanted an artificial pelvis (actually, about half of one) into a patient suffering from a rare form of cancer. Other techniques were ruled out, because the patient would be losing so much bone. So, after careful scanning, additive printing with titanium was used to create the replacement: 'In order to create the 3-D printed pelvis, the surgeons took scans of the man's pelvis to take exact measurements of how much 3-D printed bone needed to be produced and passed it along to Stanmore Implants. The company used the scans to create a titanium 3-D replacement, by fusing layers of titanium together and then coating it with a mineral that would allow the remaining bone cells to attach.' Now, three years after the procedure, the printed pelvis is holding up just fine, and the patient is able to walk with a cane."
There is not much difference with respect to physical properties between printed and sintered metal or ceramics. Sintering is a very well established fabrication process combining endurance, flexibility in design and low weight. However, laser-powered, layered construction a.k.a printing allows for even greater flexibility and most importantly one-off fabrication. This is ideally suited to medical applications like this one. However do not expect to be able to do this at home anytime soon.
...is getting some hip new applications.
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Okay, everyone. Put down your pitchforks.
Oh, that's right, you Americans can barely afford these kind of treatments.
Personally, I would have opted for adamantium.
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Ex-cell-ent. Can he still get an MRI with his implant?
3D printed penis holding up (erect? Lol) after 3 years...
Am I the only person who read "penis" instead of "pelvis" in the title? Figured I'd mis-interpreted when I got to the "would be losing so much bone".
Embarrassing bit, I'm a surgical-track doctor with research in SLM for orthopaedic implants...
Now I will be getting the emails "Print out your ... " instead of "Enlarge your ..."...
Opppsss, sorry this was pelvis...
Oh no! I misread the title of the posting. I dropped 2 letters somehow.
Study: Democrats more likely to think astrology is scientific, less likely to know Earth revolves around the sun
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/17/study-democrats-more-likely-to-think-astrology-is-scientific-less-likely-to-know-earth-revolves-around-the-sun/
Why the disparity? One possibility is education. Follow the last link and scroll down to Table 7 and you’ll see, as expected, that the more educated you are, the less likely you are to see astrology as scientific. According to the very first polls taken on the tea party movement in 2010, TPers are better educated (and wealthier) than the population on average. That probably explains why “conservative Republican” is at the bottom of the list above. On the other hand, exit polls from election day 2012 show Obama winning only narrowly among voters without a college degree. Maybe the education gap between the parties isn’t so pronounced. Or maybe income is somehow a better peg for astrological belief than education is: O did win heavily among poorer voters.
Another possibility is faith. It may be that the more devoutly you believe in a religion, the less likely you are to give credence to a quasi-religious belief system (which nonetheless purports to be “scientific”) like astrology. That would help explain why Republicans, the more religious of the two parties, are more skeptical. On the Democratic side, it’s a mirror image of the same story: Liberals are more likely to be religious skeptics than other Democrats and that bleeds over into skepticism of astrology, which pushes their numbers lower than moderate or conservative Dems. But not too low — one of the striking findings here is that even lefties are more than 10 points more likely to find scientific value in astrology than righties are.
I know this is un-PC, but it's probably because Democrats are more likely to be black. And we asl know how superstitious black's are
I misread this as 3-D printed...well, nevermind, you get it.
But, as I'm again redirected to the Beta Interface: #BetaSucks!
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My 3D printed penis is also "holding up" quite well.
Look at this: New 3D Printer by MarkForged Can Print With Carbon Fiber Definitely more companies are going to develop products like these...
Imagine the possibilities it opens for elder and disabled people care. And with the current ageing of the population in developed countries, this will certainly be a huge industry.
How much use has the pelvis got? Know what I mean, know what I mean?
Came in for a story on a 3D printed penis, left disappointed.
It's all the tacked on state regulations
That's right. That's why there is zero regulation on medical procedures in Europe
On a more serious note, I think you'll find that your "problem" is that you've injected a series of "parasites" into the supply-chain who "facilitate" but don't actually provide any value.
I sneezed yesterday and it cost me $5.
and the patient is able to walk with a cane
We need much better artificial joints and hips so that the patients are able to run with them. It will be good for the healthcare costs as the society gets "grayer."
Isn't that the study that got debunked because it turmed out the bulk of the people rating astrology as scientific had misread it as "astronomy"?
If so, it might say more about Democrats' literacy than their their belief in astrology.
It would also be what is expected, given that the consituency of the Democratic party is heavily weighted toward groups of people who have been the victims of poor public schools.
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