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Swiss doctors and engineers were able to create the first ever a prosthesis printed from the tissue of the patient himself. In future innovative technology should open new frontiers in medical prosthetics, significantly reducing the volume of surgical interventions in the human body.
To create a unique prosthesis, you need a special medical a printer. In some of its parameters, it is similar to traditional 3D printers that fashion layers of shapes from layers plastic, however, uses cartilage as a raw material patient mixed with biopolymer. Cartilage is taken from the knee or human brushes. Combining with a biological polymer, he forms a durable material with a survival rate close to one hundred percent. To print such a prosthesis, you must first create it 3D model on a personal computer – like a conventional surround printer. The polymer decomposes over time, while the body no harm is done to the patient, and in the end only cartilage remains the cloth.
To demonstrate the capabilities of their offspring, the Swiss printed nose prosthesis for a forty-five year old man, face which was disfigured in an accident on construction site. In the future, it is planned to improve some printer and use as printed materials not only cartilage of patients, but also bone.
