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    Science Has Achieved the 3D-Printed Jaw

    Science Has Achieved the 3D-Printed Jaw

    After an infection ravaged her jawbone, an 83-year-old woman in Belgium became the world's first human being to receive an artificial jaw made with 3D-printing technology. It's made of titanium, and it is awesome. A team of doctors from the Biomedical Research Institute at Hasselt University in Belgium performed the surgery last June, but for some reason, they've just now publicized the amazing accomplishment. (This is perhaps because they weren't sure how her body would react to a titanium 3D-printed jaw, because as we said, nobody's ever tried one on before.) The implant was made out of titanium powder -- heated and fused together by a laser, one layer at a time," explains the BBC. "Technicians say the operation's success paves the way for the use of more 3D-printed patient-specific parts." The company responsible for manufacturing the janky-looking thing is called LayerWise. After all, 3D-printing is basically just like inkjet printing except with many many layers of material ink that eventually add up to a three-dimensional object. How cool is that?

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    It's pretty cool, we've decided. We've been pretty amazed by 3D-printing for as long as we've known about the leaps in medical technology, since the implementation of the manufacturing process in hospitals and medical research labs. You can literally 3D-print anything, including blood vessels, organs and sweaters. It looks like science fiction, and this particular model, definitely looks like it was torn off of a robot from the Terminator movie franchise -- the Christian Bale era, not the Arnold Schwarzenegger era. But it's a fact. In the future, everything will be in 3D, including the movie The Terminator.

     

    13 comments

    • Tabitha and Christian  •  Norwalk, Connecticut  •  3 mths ago
      WHERE ARE THE PICS...Yahoo needs to step it up!!! I'm kind of sick and tired of reading these articles that reference something physical but never show a pic!
    • Jordan  •  Murfreesboro, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      Sweet.....buuut where are the pics?
    • wob  •  New Orleans, Louisiana  •  3 mths ago
      No photo's again!
    • Noah H  •  Lake Havasu City, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      Here is where the situation falls apart. Unless you're rich or have the world best health insurance none of this is going to matter to 99.9% of the world's population. The same is true for heart, liver, lung, hip and knee replacment surgery. As a society, we're going to have to make some real decisions. Are we going to finance bigger and better wars with evermore expensive war toys or are we going to treat the ill and the injured to the extent that modern medicine and medical technology allows? I don't have an answer for this, but it seems to me that if we as a nation maintained just enough military to protect our interests, raised enough taxes to do that AND have a Medicare For All system where everyone pays, but nobody pays too much. When one of our brothers or sisters as the Good Book suggests. Currently health insurance companies can hardly keep up with the expense of what is in reality 20th century medicine and still make a profit....how will this system EVER be able to keep up with medical technology that was only science fiction less than a decade ago?
    • Hayley McKenzie  •  3 mths ago
      3D printing also called Stereolithography invented by Charles Hull. He wasn't being a Democrat nor a Republican when he created this idea, he was just an American.
      • jason 3 mths ago
        what the f is your point
    • Shannon  •  3 mths ago
      Awesome!
    • GoGetter  •  3 mths ago
      The pictures are amazing.
    • SteveT  •  3 mths ago
      For all of you screaming about "where's the pictures", quite often Yahoo can't include pictures for legal reasons. But if you bother to click on the link became the world's first human being" you'll see the pictures.
      • QQ 3 mths ago
        And quite often there aren't links to pictures at all.
    • lockjaw1  •  Surfside, California  •  3 mths ago
      i have diarrhea, help!!!!
    • SKiLLz  •  3 mths ago
      "Janky" looking thing?
    • G. Manitley  •  3 mths ago
      This technology has actually been around for a while - developed in the 80's. Look up "selective laser sintering"
    • Matta G  •  3 mths ago
      It's only a matter of time before they make a 3-D #$%$
    • Preston  •  3 mths ago
      Hey everyone! The cure for aids is $200,000 shot directly into the blood stream!
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