🧬 A step further! Chinese surgeons use 3D technology to print "artificial spine" 19 cm long titanium.

🧬 A step further! Chinese surgeons use 3D technology, print "artificial spine," 19 cm long titanium, change the patient's life. 🦾

The medical community and technology have advanced a step further! 🏥 Surgeons in China have successfully reconstructed the severely damaged vertebra with a length of 19 centimeters. The key highlight is the use of implantation materials based on the advanced 3D Printing technology. 🇨🇳✨

Normally, treating a spine with large damage is very challenging, because a typical standard prosthetic bone often has shapes that do not fit the complex physiology of each patient. 😔

But through a collaboration between doctors and engineers, they used medical photographs and computer models to design a "titanium spine" to fit the body structure of this patient individually. 💻

In addition, 3D Print technology can create structures within materials that are "porous," resembling sponges, which is very useful in helping the real bones and tissues around them to grow completely interlined with artificial materials in the long run. 🧬

Why titanium? 🤔 The reason why the medical community uses titanium is because this material is strong, durable, corrosion-resistant, and, importantly, biocompatibility. 🦾

This success reflects that 3D Printing technology is reinventing the field of reconstructive surgery, giving patients the most accurate treatment and fit in their bodies, which is truly a new medical hope! 🌟

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