- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
An surgeon in the UK, with the help of a 3D printer, has successfully reconstructed a 53-year-old throat cancer patient’s jaw using bone from one of his legs.Dr Daya Gahir of Royal Stoke University Hospital in West Midlands region of England specialises in facial, head and neck surgery and conducts as many as 40 reconstructions a year.Last year his hospital acquired the software required to make full use of the £150,000 3D printer to make his task even more efficient, including designing and manufacturing the surgical tools and performing the surgery. “We do at least 40 major head and neck…
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