Just a couple of years ago Fanny, a 16-year-old Swedish teenager, was facing a life in a wheelchair. She suffers from a rare degenerative condition causing skeletal deformities. Fortunately now Fanny is on her way to recovery, with the help of a customised 3D Printed hip implant. Check the video below for details:
Source: 3dprintingindustry.com/
The BIOFABRIS is a National Institute of S&T in Biomanufacturing of multidisciplinary,
located at the Chemical Engineering Campus of UNICAMP, character that aims to integrate computational tools, synthesis and development of new biomaterials and application of engineering techniques to obtain biomedical devices (prostheses and orthopedic orthoses) and substitutes for live biological tissues or defective or missing human organs.
British surgeon uses 3D printing to create pelvis for a cancer patient 
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