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Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind
ErnieKey writes: A wounded loggerhead turtle showed up in Turkey, with significant damage to its upper and lower jaws. It was taken to the Sea Turtle Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center at Pamukkale University (PAU) for help. The PAU team, working with BTech Innovation, was able to make a 3D printed titanium jaw implant for the turtle. The operation was a success, and the patient — the world's first sea turtle to receive a 3D printed implant — is recovering.
or Michelangelo?
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He fainted when he saw the bill...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I wouldn't kill a turtle myself, but I do eat beef and other delicious meats regularly. According to the Snopes article, the incident depicted is credibly alleged to be a legal hunting kill in Louisiana wherein the hunter ate the meat. Snopes provides evidence that it wasn't a casual killing with a sawsall like the hysterical Facebook post claimed, but rather a couple of 22 bullets in the turtle's head. What's depicted is the butchering process -- which by the way is just as ugly when it's a cow, we're just not used to seeing it.
So simmer down a bit!
All the 3d printing printing aside.... That is now the most BADASS looking turtle that I have ever seen.
I understand extrusion machines, but how can you print titanium?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I find it hard to believe this is the really first Turkish loggerhead turtle to receive a 3D printed titanium jaw. Maybe someone did it before and we just never heard about it.
Sounds like this turtle has a better health plan than I do. If I could find out who his provider is, I would switch plans in a snap - but his insurer seems to be hidden behind a maze of shell companies.
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We can rebuild him. Better, stronger, not quite as slow as most turtles.
Yes, let's all stop hunting deer in Indiana and Michigan. The ...something will eat them and they won't starve, get sick, and destroy our crops, smash into our cars, invade our lawns and bring diseased ticks. We killed all the predators a hundred years before I was born. We are the only thing keeping the herd in check.