Two-year-old Violet Pietrok was born with an extremely rare condition called Tessier facial cleft, leaving the bones in her face so spread apart that her nose lacked cartilage and her eyes didn’t have normal vision. Because the defect is so rare, not many doctors have experience with repairing it — but one plastic surgeon located in…
Surgeons reconstructed this little girl’s face with 3D printing
I never really appreciated the potential medical applications of 3D printing. There have been a string reconstructive applications like this recently that are nothing short of amazing.