Monday, May 18, 2015

In Turkey, the 3D-printer printed titanium jaw for injured turtles – Turkey Tourism News

Turkish specialists from the Center for rescue and rehabilitation of turtles could Pamukkale University using the 3D-printer to print for the turtle titanium prostheses both jaws. As reported, the animal lost its mouthparts view wounds received from the boat propeller.

 turtle after the operation

45-pound sea turtle was Found on the shore of a severe injury and taken to a research center turtle rescue and rehabilitation of Pamukkale University in the Turkish city of Denizli.

An animal that has become the owner of the prosthesis, or refers to the loggerhead turtles Caretta. She was found by experts in July 2014 with a broken upper and lower jaws. The damage was so severe that the reptile could not feed yourself, and center staff more than six months the turtle gently fed small pieces of fish.

Detailed images obtained by scanning turtles, allowed to construct a titanium prosthesis. Experts in the three-dimensional printing resorted to CT and created a model of the skull reptiles, and then, within two months of doing the exact parameters of the future prosthetic fitting a profile of the remaining fragments of the jaws. When the training was completed, the company is ready for Btech models printed titanium prostheses for the turtle.

Three weeks after surgery turtle feels good and has already started to make their own food. If the prosthesis is not cut off by the body tortoise, soon it will be released into the sea.

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