How imaging, 3D printing gave one man a new face

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 scans of Underwood's face. The scans were then sent to a company in Michigan called Materialise, who converted the scans into ...

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