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    A patient with head and neck cancer received the first 3D-printed titanium lower jaw in a successful operation, according to an August 4 press release from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The jaw was reconstructed based on the patient’s imaging.

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    • A patient with head and neck cancer received the first #3dprinted titanium lower jaw in a successful operation, according to an August 4 press release from the @NKI_nl. #HNC #3D https://t.co/KX42SMDwvl

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    Will technology make managing diabetes easier?How can we use wearables today to exercise more, sleep better and decrease anxiety?Can 3D printed organs ever make donor waiting lists redundant?Should doctors be replaced by artificial intelligence and surgical robots?

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    • Can #3Dprinted organs ever make donor waiting lists redundant? Should doctors be replaced by #ai and surgical robots? In this ebook, we answer the 40 most exciting questions about the present and future of health technology: https://t.co/0mNr8NTOid

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    A group of Italian researchers has developed a 3D printed artificial skin that could be used to improve the tactile sensing capabilities of robots. Researchers from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the Sapienza University of Rome created the 3D printed skin which successfully mimicked the function of Ruffini receptors, a type […]

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    • Italian researchers have developed a #3dprinted artificial skin to improve robots' tactile sensing. Or customized robotic prosthetics, I assume. A healthy arm replacement that restores feeling in patients is more important. https://t.co/ykr7Cvw44Q https://t.co/hgwm0URQrX

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    Doctors in Dubai have successfully completed a series of surgeries on a young male patient to reform his facial deformities using 3D printed titanium implants.  Claimed as a one-of-its-kind case in the world by the medical team, the surgery completely reconstructed the patient’s facial bones, which had been severely damaged from several benign tumors.  The […]

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    • Using #3dprinted titanium implants, doctors in Dubai have successfully completed a series of surgeries on a young male patient to reconstruct the patient’s facial bones that were damaged as a result of several benign tumors. https://t.co/roHA5rIRUT

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    A group of researchers from the Mayo Clinic, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Medical University of South Carolina have 3D printed a low-cost proof-of-concept spinal surgical simulator. The aim of the study is to raise awareness of the lack of current surgical training alternatives to traditional methods that can be inconvenient, inaccessible, and […]

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    • Do you know how expensive CPR mannequins and medical simulators are? Now a group of researchers #3dprinted a low-cost proof-of-concept spinal surgical simulator! https://t.co/wkormUtG3r