DANBURY -- In the years after R.W. had a serious car accident that almost crushed one side of his face, he underwent at least six surgeries to rebuild his jaw, cheeks and right eye socket. Most of ...

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The potential for 3D printing technology to change the way facial reconstruction surgery is performed is being realized in the U.K. Doctors have successfully used 3D-printed titanium plates to rebuild ...

Defects of the skull and facial bones can pose difficult challenges for plastic and reconstructive surgeons. A synthetic material called hyperelastic bone -- readily produced by 3D-printing -- could ...

The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery. Printed organs, such as a proto­type outer ear ...

Facial and head surgery can require sections of bone to be removed, and doctors often have to harvest material from elsewhere in the body to fill in the gaps. That's not always an ideal situation, and ...

You can blame the bones in the face, not just gravity, for those wrinkles, jowls, and the general drooping appearance that comes with age. A new study shows that the shrinking of facial bones plays a ...