Wound healing
3D-printed face masks are helping pediatric burn patients heal better with personalized treatments.The new technology also eliminates a potentially traumatic step for burn patients, who previously needed to endure warm plaster bandages to make masks of their faces.
“3D printing is something we’ve dreamed of for quite a long time,” said Christophe Debat, GM of Romans Ferrari pediatric rehabilitation center in France. “We had imagined that a 3D printer would allow us to produce a mask based on the scanned file without ever having to touch the patient.”
The team has treated more than 100 patients using a Formlabs Fuse 1 selective laser sintering (SLS) printer.