DANBURY -- In the years after R.W. had a serious car accident that almost crushed one side of his face, he underwent at least six surgeries to rebuild his jaw, cheeks and right eye socket. Most of ...

Defects of the skull and facial bones can pose difficult challenges for plastic and reconstructive surgeons. A synthetic material called hyperelastic bone -- readily produced by 3D-printing -- could ...

The potential for 3D printing technology to change the way facial reconstruction surgery is performed is being realized in the U.K. Doctors have successfully used 3D-printed titanium plates to rebuild ...

Facial and head surgery can require sections of bone to be removed, and doctors often have to harvest material from elsewhere in the body to fill in the gaps. That's not always an ideal situation, and ...

During a complicated bone surgery, every second matters. The longer a wound is open, the more likely it is to become infected and injured. Now picture this: Surgeons can now print a new piece of bone ...

On the most recent episode of Bones, a team of forensic anthropologists scanned and uploaded a skeleton to the cloud, so that another team could download and print the bones halfway around the world ...

When you think of facial aging, wrinkles and sagging skin come to mind, but new research finds that skin isn't the only thing that ages. Over time, so do the facial bones, which lose volume and recede ...