Posted on 1/31/2019
On Jan. 6, medical imaging and three-dimensional (3D) printing went above and beyond standard applications when Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, a plastic surgeon and face transplant specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, used the technologies to help him perform his third face transplant surgery on patient Cameron Underwood, according to a recent report by Popular Science.
Underwood, who had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was missing his upper and lower jaw, facial bones, gums, all 32 teeth, the roof and floor of his mouth, part of his tongue, his lower eyelids, cheeks, nose and parts of his nasal passage when he was admitted to NYU Langone days earlier.
Prior to the face transplant surgery, Rodriguez and his team took CT sc...