Human ear recreated by using 3-D technology

A hospital in Yunnan province has created a human ear for a disfigured patient through the use of 3-D technology. It is the world’s second case of auricular reconstruction and transplantation.

The patient, surnamed Zhang, suffered major injuries during a car accident, which disfigured his face and caused him to lose an ear. In an effort to help Zhang, the Second Affiliated Hospital to Kunming Medical University launched a plan to recreate a human ear with 3-D technology.

“We buried an expander in the patient’s arm, injecting water every day in an effort to obtain a piece of human skin. Once the skin was obtained, we took several samples of costicartilage from the patient to reproduce a human ear,” Wang Jihua, a doctor from the hospital, told Yunnan.cn, the artificially constructed ear will have to grow for another three months before it can finally be transplanted onto the patient’s head.

Human ear recreated by using 3-D technology

A hospital in Yunnan province has created a human ear for a disfigured patient through the use of 3-D technology. It is the worlds second case of auricular reconstruction and transplantation. The patient, surnamed Zhang, suffered major injuries during a car accident, which disfigured his face and caused him to lose an ear. In an effort to help Zhang, the Second Affiliated Hospital to Kunming Medical University launched a plan to recreate a human ear with 3-D technology. We buried an expander in the patients arm, injecting water every day in an effort to obtain a piece of human skin. Once the skin was obtained, we took several samples of costicartilage from the patient to reproduce a human ear, Wang Jihua, a doctor from the hospital, told Yunnan.cn, the artificially constructed ear will have to grow for another three months before it can finally be transplanted onto the patients head.