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Project Title: Bio-Engineered Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Project Scope: I want to start with a smaller patient base involving approx. 4 patients: One for cranial implants, nasal implants, Zyphogomatic implant, and potentially a jaw surgery. This may take a month for each level of implants and patients.

To help recovery time through biomedical synthesized material and through 3D imaging and printing to increase patient satisfaction and to shorten recovery time.

Project Duration/timeline: Start date: 08-26-16 End date: TBD

Project partners: Tyler Alt

Resources:

• 3D imaging

• Isense and sense 2

• Blender

• 3D camera

• Camera

• 3D Printer

• Computer

• Studio

• George Donev

• Board of Plastic Surgery

• New Harvest

• HPA facilities

• Energy lab

• Experiment Testing body

• 3 people 2 females and one male

Abstract:

Approaching reconstructive surgery from a individualized healthcare lense we can Use 3D Imaging and printing to create new prosthetics that incoprate biomimicry and personalized attributes for patients needing surgery. This allows for better reconstruction and decreased recovery times in patients across the board.

Title: Bio-Engineered Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Background: Plastic Surgery: Plastics is a branch of the medical practice that involves both reconstructive and cosmetic surgeries that affect the aesthetic and therefore in many cases the functionality of the affected body part. I am more interested in the reconstructive branch of plastics but with the data and information from my project there can be cosmetic applications.

Purpose:

I hope to use 3D imaging, computer technology, Art, and biology, and biomimicry to create new ways of approaching Reconstructive Plastics. I hope to create models from limited information and help construct and create new faces using exact individualized processes. Through this I hope to speed up recovery time, patient satisfaction, and push health care into new individualized age.

Measurements:

I hope to use computer software and imaging technology to create facial structures and muscles patterns that can then be rendered in 3D space and produced. I also hope to use biomimicry and bioengineering to create and research new and innovative materials in which we can implant and use for reconstruction and skin grafting.

Resources:

• 3D modeling software

• Mentors in 3D modeling software

• 3D printer

• Imaging technology

• 3D scanner

• x-Ray machine *potentially*

• Volunteers (base for facial modeling and rendering)

Impact:

As plastic surgery continues to rise in popularity and practice so has its stigma of being impractical, pointless, and unimportant. However thousands of people each year experience traumatic car accidents, mastectomies, burns, and are victims to countless hate crimes and war. I don't believe those individuals need to be given only 2 options. Option A is live with the disfigurement as a reminder of the past and option B begin the process to get your one size fits all surgery and recover only to find your surgery did not work and or your skin graft is not taking. I want to give people another option to receive care that is best suited for them regardless of their geographic location, race, or economic background. That is the impact I want to make.

Legacy:

I want to leave a body of work for other student at HPA who want to shift the perspective of a population. Imaging technology is only increasing and we now are at a new age of biological engineering. I want to leave not only a project that has data and 3D models and Printed Prosthetics but I want to leave the idea that things can be changed and that questions can be asked. We are all individuals and should be treated as such.