After losing her right eye and part of her jaw to cancer, the Brazilian woman is getting a new face thanks to a digitally-engineered prosthesis."Today I can say how much better I will feel being out in the streets. I have no words," Vicentin, 53, tells AFP at a clinic in Sao Paulo after being fitted with a prosthesis for a missing chunk of her face.
Their technique was published in 2016 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.AFP has followed Vicentin's journey for more than a year and a half, documenting the various stages of her physical and psychological recovery. Doctor Rodrigo Salazar-Gamarra works on a digitally-engineered prosthesis for Denise Vicentin, a woman who lost her right eye and part of her jaw to cancer, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Dec 3, 2019.
As 3D printing developed in recent years, Luciano Dib - one of Salazar's supervisors and a co-researcher - got the idea to use the technique for prosthesis models. Using a smartphone, Salazar took 15 pictures of her face from different angles, which were used to make a three-dimensional digital model.Technicians then 3D-printed a prototype prosthesis which they used to make the final one from silicone, resin and synthetic fibres.
Conventional techniques for making prosthesis models involve equipment costing up to US$500,000, he says. Their method requires a computer and a smartphone.
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