Doctors use 3D printing technology to help 27-year-old woman disfigured face change
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The 27-year-old girl "Yezi" was diagnosed with high fever at the age of 2, and suffered from secondary infection, lost her nose, lips and central face, and her right finger was also missing. Photo courtesy Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital
"How did you get through the most painful time?"
For this question, the answer of the netizen "also Green" attracted a lot of attention from other netizens. "Yezi" is a 27-year-old woman who was born in a remote village. She was born with a high fever at 2 years of age. She was infected with infection, lost her nose, lips and central face. The right finger was also missing. The language was vague and it was difficult to eat. ... She described on the Internet the unbearable growth experience of ordinary people.
It is reported that Shanghai Jiuyuan has developed a pre-construction reconstruction plan for “Yizi†to construct a “face†in its chest area. The operation is divided into four phases, and the treatment time is about half a year. 
The patient skull model printed with 3D printing technology before surgery, and the restoration of the patient's incomplete face, and the development of a surgical plan. Photo courtesy Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital 
The 3D reconstruction technique is used to convert CT into 3D data and simulate technical solutions. Photo courtesy Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital
According to the hospital, this is an extremely rare form of sepsis. After several rounds of discussion, in response to the main appeal of “Yizizi†face reconstruction, the expert group led by Professor Li Qingfeng, the director of the hospital's rehabilitation department, developed a pre-construction reconstruction plan for constructing a “face†in the chest area of ​​the patient.
According to experts, this is a self-organized full-face prefabricated reconstruction. This innovative method is called “Chinese-style face changeâ€. It has successfully completed 42 cases and won the second prize of 2016 National Science and Technology Progress Award and promoted it in many places across the country.
According to experts from the hospital, the repair and reconstruction team also combined with multidisciplinary experts such as oral surgery and oral craniofacial surgery, using 3D printing technology to restore the defective patient's face, which facilitates preoperative evaluation, design, and detailed and comprehensive treatment. Program.
Li Qingfeng said that the treatment plan will be achieved through four stages of surgery. At 9 o'clock on the morning of April 10, "Ye Zi" entered the operating room and received the first operation, which lasted for 12 hours. The hospital expects to complete all four phases of surgery for at least six months.
The hospital revealed that the four-stage operation of the treatment plan was the first stage of the vascular fascial flap anastomosis of the thigh, and the revision of the vascular prefabricated flap + maxillary deformity; the second stage was skin expansion and stem cell treatment to obtain a large area. The ultra-thin skin with facial skin matching; the third phase builds the nasal and upper lip reconstruction scaffold and lining in the chest area; the four-phased face includes nasal and lip transplantation to the face to reconstruct the face.