3D printing to help 27-year-old Chinese woman get a new face

A 27 year old Chinese woman lost more than half of her face in her childhood because of some infection. The woman is all set to undergo a facial reconstruction process, which would take almost one year for competition. 3D printing will be utilized to make guides for the new facial elements.

Living almost 27 years without a face seems so unnatural and something that would happen in a Kafka or Gogol story, but not in real life. But for 27 year old Jin Qi, the circumstances couldn’t be more real. After getting infected by a rare form of sepsis at a young age, the lady has lived most of her life without a mouth or nose, both of them were lost to disease after her autoimmune system went haywire.

According to some reports in China, The 27 year old Jin was born in the central Chinese province of Hubei and now lives in Shenzhen, is ready to go under a fundamental one-year facial reconstruction procedure that has four stages. Thanks to the latest 3D printing technology that will help the doctors build special models of the new parts for her face. Master specialist Li Qingfeng will supervise the procedure.

Though according to some sources, the forefront 3D printing technology will be utilized for fabricating guiding models of Jin’s new face, the materials which, are used for manufacturing the face itself will be coming from a place that the patient recognizes easily that is from her own chest. Tissues which are there on the chest are similar in color and texture of the face and it can reshaped and transplanted. 

At present, we don't know much about the 3D printing procedure being utilized to make these facial models, or how precisely they will be utilized to shape the human tissue. Pictures gave by Chinese news sources propose that the models are plastic.

What we do know is that Jin, who is presently a visual architect with an enthusiasm for outline and photography, chose to experience the extensive methodology in the wake of posting her story on the web and accepting loads of exhortation from restorative experts and thoughtful perusers. The patient even raised cash for her unpredictable technique by means of a crowdfunding effort.

Sources say that 42 facial recreation methodology of a comparative sort have as of now been completed in China. In spite of the fact that the long haul impacts of such new procedures are not yet know, the patient ought to be ameliorated by the way that many have been in her position some time recently.

Before going into the working theater for the first of four surgical systems, Jin was in a cheery inclination: "If this surgery is fruitful," she stated, "I will be more positive about front of other individuals."