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Child’s ear constructed with 3D printing

Child's ear constructed with 3D printing

Written by David

October 22, 2019

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Doctors at Florence’s Meyer hospital said Tuesday that they have used 3D printing techniques to construct an external ear for a child.

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The patient is a 13-year-old boy who was born with no external ears because of a severe form of microtia, a congenital deformity in which the pinna is underdeveloped. Plastic surgeons used the boy’s costal cartilage to create an ear using 3D printing.

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Doctors are planning to do a similar operation for the other ear. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA

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