From the Cromwell Hospital, here is a short video in which Alastair describes how the latest 3D printing technology enables his team to visualise, plan, treat and reconstruct a lower jaw following a tumour diagnosis.
3D Printing allows him to not only make an accurate model of the jaw and tumour, but also the stents and cutting guides required to reconstruct the jaw, so that it is returned to as close to its original state as possible.
Mr Fry explains how a 3D printed mandible is taken from a patient’s CT scans, in order to help treat a lower jaw tumour.