Well, if you’re still waiting for the future, I’m here to tell you that the future is here and it comes bearing good news. There’s been too many reports of botched surgical surgeries and here at the Life Happens bureau of investigations we are having none of it! Not in this day in age, nowadays Surgeons can plan safe surgical procedures in advance using A 3D printing machine.

Here’s how it works, doctors are able to recreate any part of the human body structure in a form of a 3D image, they get this from 3D medical scans such as CT or MRI. They take than image, put it into a software programme, which then enables them to print a plastic 3D model of the image. By so doing they can then use the prototype to plan and perform procedures with a greater measure of safety and efficiency way before you get there for the surgery.

From what I understand the 3D printing technology itself is not necessarily new, but has been considered too costly for everyday use until recently. So it’s kinda new in the sense that, it’s only now being used more due to affordability.

Guest: Dr Rudolph Venter - Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher