There are numerous uses for 3D Printing technology in everyday life, but one of the ones that gives us great satisfaction at Additium3D is when our manufacturing capabilities allow us to collaborate in medical initiatives to contribute to the wellbeing of others.
We recently told you our collaboration with the Surgery team of the Hospital Universitario de La Fe in Valencia, in the operation to fix a dislocated hip suffered by a young patient. The aim was for the team of surgeons who were to operate to be able to study the area and to do this, after converting a simple .DICOM file into a printed solid, we provided a full-scale copy of the hip to be operated on.
On this occasion it was Jose Ribes, a doctor at the Hospital de la Ribera, located in Alzira (Valencia), who has been the person in charge of devising the project on which we have successfully and proudly embarked, and which we are going to tell you about below.