As bad as it may sound, it's remarkable that there are medical teams out there who employ "new" techniques such as 3D printing. It may be an old hat for us, but

As bad as it may sound, it's remarkable that there are medical teams out there who employ "new" techniques such as 3D printing. It may be an old hat for us, but the medical community has always been a little ...reluctant when it comes to applying new technologies. I can't imagine the people I went to medical school with considering or even knowing about such a thing, if it hasn't already been well-established. Also, there is an amazing amount of modeling that went into this particular piece. It's not just a matter of printing out a structure, it also has to fit the patient - and in this case it was a fairly complicated shape.