“A saving of 2,000 Swiss francs for surgery” is what the Basel University Hospital in Switzerland, thanks to the use of 3D printed surgical guides, has managed to reduce by one-third the timing of the skull operations. maxillo-facial; in addition to the reduction in time (before the intervention lasted more than an hour and a half, now an hour), it was seen that there was a reduction in risks and an improvement in patient outcomes.
Thanks to the installation of a 3D printer in the specific surgical ward, a real laboratory corner has been created to create models on which to plan the surgery to the best and guarantee the best possible results. Furthermore, the ability to show accurate anatomical models allows clinicians to better explain the procedures to patients, ensuring they are more comfortable before surgery.
In addition to this the biomodels are now widely used in the medical field for practice and pre-operative surgical simulations; 3D models allow you to plan the surgery in detail, optimize results and significantly reduce production time and costs. Before using this advanced technique, the surgical team had to plan the reconstructions in detail, using standard titanium meshes; each mesh had to be formed and cut by hand in the operating room to ensure a precise fit and fit well in the patient; significantly increasing the timing and costs of the operation and, without a doubt, going to have a negative impact on the patient. Beyond this the biomodels are now widely used in the medical field for practice and pre-operative surgical simulations; 3D models allow you to plan the surgery in detail, optimize results and significantly reduce production time and costs. Before using this advanced technique, the surgical team had to plan the reconstructions in detail, using standard titanium meshes; each mesh had to be formed and cut by hand in the operating room to ensure a precise fit and fit well in the patient; significantly increasing the timing and costs of the operation and, without a doubt, going to have a negative impact on the patient.
The possibility of being able to offer a fast and accurate service, has guaranteed to the surgery department in question the ability to manage complex traumas and urgencies, in a very efficient way; especially in the case of the orbital floor and serious complex fractures of cheekbones because there is low visibility and the risk of making errors increases exponentially.
Today, 3D printing allows the surgical team to produce a tailor-made model for each patient before each operation, within two hours of receiving the patient’s CT scan.
The decrease in the time of the operation has, rightly, reduced the time of anesthesia and this means that the risk of complications due to it has substantially decreased.
According to Dr. Florian Thieringer “With highly accurate 3D printed models, standard titanium implants can be individually modeled to create a patient-specific hybrid implant which reduces the time required for cutting and suturing during surgery and also reduces the need to take patient-specific titanium implants from external suppliers, and thanks to the transparency of the MED610 modeling material, we can create highly accurate and anatomically correct models that not only allow us to view parts of the anatomy otherwise obscured or limited during surgery, but also reduces the need for patients to return for revision operations. “
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