London
: An Indian-origin surgeon in the UK, with the help of a 3D printer,
has successfully reconstructed a 53-year-old cancer patient's jaw using
bone from one of his legs.
Dr. Daya Gahir of Royal
Stoke University Hospital in West Midlands region of England specialises
in facial, head and neck surgery and conducts as many as 40
reconstructions a year. Last year his hospital acquired the software
required to make full use of the 150,000 pound 3D printer to make his
task even more efficient, including designing and manufacturing the
surgical tools and performing the surgery.
" We do at
least 40 major head and neck reconstructions per year. Around 10 to 15
cases will be done in this way using the printer," Gahir told the Stoke
Sentinel newspaper.
" Some of the leg bone was taken
then reshaped, as you have to replace bone with bone. We took away some
of the skin from the leg as well and replanted it back into the neck,"
he said, as he explained about the 12 hour-delicate surgery conducted on
his patient Stephen Waterhouse recently.
Waterhouse's jawbone had disintegrated after he underwent radiotherapy treatment for his throat cancer a few years ago. -- PTI
( The Times of India, Madurai, Thursday, March 23, 2017 )
Courtesy : MPS
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