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3D printing at the service of medicine to treat severe facial burns in children is being tested by 3DZ, a Venetian company distributing 3D printers with over 13 foreign branches, through a pilot project conducted within the Romans Ferrari Pediatric Rehabilitation Center in Lyon and which was also awarded at the Global Industrie Fair, the most important French event in the industrial sector. 3D printing made it possible to create facial orthoses – masks that can help children in the treatment of facial burns. The masks are made to measure by using a 3D scanner able to obtain a perfect reproduction of the patient's face in detail. Starting from this design, these 3D printers allow to create the masks to be applied on the face of the patients, all without being invasive on children and increasing the precision of the facial prosthesis perfectly designed by tracing the patient's face. The future evolution of the project lies in its adaptation to telemedicine: the aim is to scan a face and print it remotely to create a compression brace even hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.
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