NEW YORK CITY-An in-house lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center on the Upper East Side is 3D printing human skulls – and it’s helping save New Yorkers’ lives. By turning out one-to-one scale models of skull-base tumors, curved spines, and other problems for doctors performing complex surgeries,
Physicians use the 3-D models made of layers of powder bound by colored glue to determine the least invasive procedure for a particular case, practice techniques in advance of an operation, and educate their patients, who can actually hold replicas of their body parts in their own hands.
This is how the process at Mount Sinai, which launched its Medical Modeling Core lab last January but announced it in December, works: Read More…
