3D Printing in Plastic Surgery
3D Printing in Plastic Surgery Plastic surgery is known for Two arms; reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. It is known for properly & meticulously planning and perfectly executing the plan to give the desired result. Plastic surgeons don’t like surprises. They plan surgery with paper, drawings, transparencies, wax models, clay models and what not. For craniofacial surgeries different views X-ray films, CT scan and 3D reconstruction with CT scan are the usual protocol. Now the new technology 3D printing is coming to help for better planning and better surgical management in plastic surgery. 3D printing is vastly used for all industries and in all modalities of medicine all over the world. It is of use in plastic surgery in many aspects like · Education of trainee · Teaching models · Planning of surgeries specially craniofacial and cosmetic surgeries, where we can cut out the patient’s anatomy and learn what it is before going for