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Doctors Replace Patient's Thoracic Vertebrae With 3D-Printed Replica
ErnieKey (3766427) writes Earlier this month, surgeons at Zhejiang University in China performed a surgery to remove two damaged vertebrae from a 21-year-old patient. In their place they inserted a 3D printed titanium implant which was shaped to the exact size needed for the patient's body. The surgery, which took doctors much less time and provided significantly less risk [than conventional surgery] was completely successful and the patient is expected to make a full recovery. This is said to be the first ever surgery involving 3D printing vertebrae in order to replace a patient's thoracic vertebrae.
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What caused the damage? What is the "conventional surgery"?
When did this happen?
"3d printing with titanium?"
NASA did it like last year, or year before that.
Try keeping up with the pace of technology, luddite.
~Signed,
Person with a 3-d printed titanium femur and 3-d printed plastic composite patella.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Yep, he barely discusses anything and submits tons of stories from there.
50:1 this guy's shilling for ad dollars.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I'm an orthopaedic surgeon, and I doubt it's anything more than just a typical spacer that is commonly used.
OK found the article, and I'm corect.
http://3dprint.com/30512/3d-pr...
The title is misleading - it's just a 3D printed version of spacers that are commonly used - it really doesn't look, nor function any differently than the ones currently being used. The patient had a non-ossifying fibroma - rare in the spine, but benign, and will turn into regular bone eventually. This could have been treated with some bone graft and a plate and screws, which is basically what they did.
Nothing really new here.
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You could probably avoid that by sintering in an inert atmosphere, or in vacuum. In fact I would suspect high-end metal printers would do that anyway, in order to avoid the incorporation of oxides into the final product. After all virtually all metals "burn", lithium, etc. are just more volatile than most.
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