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This highly detailed model shows the results of a collaboration among physicians and engineers to restore parts of a patient’s face lost to cancer. After the patient was disfigured by the loss of his right eye, cheek bone, and upper jaw, Belgian anaplastologist Jan De Cubber and clinical engineers at Materialise, a Belgian 3-D printing firm, made new silicone and titanium parts that were modeled on the unaffected parts of the patient’s face.
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