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PostSubject: Custom-made kneecaps being printed by the surgeon as the patient lies on the operating table   Custom-made kneecaps being printed by the surgeon as the patient lies on the operating table Icon_minitimeFri Feb 28, 2014 11:50 pm

Custom-made kneecaps being printed by the surgeon as the patient lies on the operating table. It sounds like someone's pulling your leg, right?

Wrong. According to St Vincent's Hospital's Mark Cook this is the future; a new frontier that has opened up for researchers and clinicians, thanks to the rapidly advancing capabilities of 3D printing.

St Vincent's and University of Wollongong researchers are already building a hand-held gun for doctors to print body parts on demand, while the patient is in theatre.

Professor Cook believes that within years, a patient's own cells will be one of the key ingredients in a solution fed into a 3D printer like ink.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/a-whole-new-look-at-surgery--and-its-all-in-3d-20140228-33rea.html#ixzz2ugRCvkzm
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