Surgeons typically use a combination of flat plates, bars and mesh to build an artificial rib cage and sternum for patients. The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that ...

“We created a titanium mesh cage to a three-dimensional shape and fit, for his lower jaw, using computer-aided design, based on CT scans of his face,” explains Patrick Warnke from the ...

It sounds like something straight out of a comic book, but after losing his sternum and part of his rib cage to cancer, a 54-year-old Spanish man received the world’s first 3D-printed chest ...

Also, with normal titanium mesh cage, doctors usually put crushed bone in the mesh, so that when that bone fuses with the neighboring bones the implant becomes stronger and firm enough to support ...

A recent example is the work of Patrick Warnke, Hendrick Terheyden and co-workers, in which a section of replacement jaw was generated inside a sculpted titanium mesh cage by coaxing appropriate ...

A titanium mesh cage is placed in the gap, which stabilises the bone and helps it heal. But titanium does not degrade — it remains in the body permanently, causing other problems.

“The titanium mesh cage filled with bone graft was inserted as a strut (tukod) anteriorly in her cervical vertebrae and was stabilized further with kick plates,” he explained.

IIT-M researchers have developed nano-coated magnesium alloy mesh cage implants, as an alternative for titanium support for fractured bones, which can degrade slowly and get absorbed in the body ...

Double Surgery, Mesh Trick Save Nine-year-old Girl A rare operation was performed by city doctors to save a girl who had difficulty in walking due to tumours in her spine and skull.