Date: April 2018.
Source: Society For Biomaterials 2018 Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Statement of Purpose: Through the implementation of 3D- printed models in the operating room, plastic surgeons are able to visualize and reconstruct key anatomical features for patients seeking an autogenous ear reconstruction or rhinoplasty. The 3D-printed constructs are sterilizable patient-specific, cost-effective, and invaluable in preoperative planning, patient communication and surgical performance. By leveraging open-sourced sculpting software and departmentally available 3D-printers, our team can manufacture affordable, sterilizable, patient-specific medical moulages as an intraoperative model for aesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the face.
Conclusions: By leveraging software platforms and hardware readily available to consumers, sterilizable, patient-specific anatomic 3D models can be personally, affordably manufactured and used during rhinoplasties or autogenous ear reconstructions.
Article: Patient-specific 3D Models Providing a 21st Century Approach to Reconstructive Surgery.
Authors: Hannah Liss, Samantha G Maliha, Lukasz Witek, Jonathan M Bekisz, Aiza Humayun, Kimberly S Khouri, Samuel D Raffaelli, Paulo G Coelho, Roberto L Flores. Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.