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An airway created with a 3D printer saved this baby’s life

If you think 3D printing’s overhyped with all this talk of plastic guns and strange, spider-like houses, you clearly haven’t seen this: a tiny airway splint created using a 3D printer that saved a three-month-old’s life.

3D printer helps save dying baby

Using an experimental technique never before tried on a human, they created a splint made out of biological material that effectively carved a path through Kaiba's blocked airway.

Doctos print up a splint for baby's blocked throat

The Youngstown, Ohio, baby turned blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors at U-M used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe.

Doctors use 3D printer to custom-design implant for baby

Researchers at the University of Michigan used a 3-D printer to build a tiny splint-like implant that saved a baby boy with life-threatening breathing problems. With the implant's success, custom-designing medical devices on a 3-D printer may become common.

Big problems, simple solutions: Energy Institute-Led team receives Third Century grant

Researches from U-M are combining their resources, talent and experience to find a solution to a problem they have yet to figure out. The group has been given a 300,000 dollar Global Challenges grant from the University's Third Century Initiative to do just that.

Baby's life saved with innovative 3D printed device from U-M

It’s an incredible story: Groundbreaking technology at University of Michigan has saved the life of an infant with no other options.

Doctors save Ohio by 'printing' an airway tube

In a medical first, scientists used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to make an artificial airway splint to save the life of a baby boy.

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