South African Surgeon Made Medical History

[Gloxina]

First Middle Ear implant

Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo (1964–) using 3D technology, successfully pioneered the transplant of a patient’s middle ear to cure his deafness. The team was from the University of Pretoria Faculty of Health at the Steve Biko Academic hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

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South African surgeon Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo made medical history by performing the world’s first-ever middle ear transplant using 3D-printed bones. The grou...

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Mashudu Tshifularo: The First Middle-ear Transplant

For nearly 430 million globally, hearing loss is a disability. It is expected that by 2050, this number could rise to more than 700 million, according to the World Health Organization.

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[Rekkapryde]

That's wassup

























Not FBA tho

 

[Gloxina]

That's wassup

























Not FBA tho

 

[BaggerofTea]

wow, really on the verge of the ultra rich having 3d printed body parts for just about everything

 

[Tair]

Novel work.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

This happened 6 years ago.
Still dope.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

This happened 6 years ago.
Still dope.

imagine the progress that's been made to the technique and the 3D printing advancements

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Nice but caption is misleading
It did not cure deafness overall but one specific type of deafness.
Still huge tho

 

[PatCake]

Yes, Sir

I'm from the same Tribe (Tshivenda), close from the same village as Dr Tshifularo.

 

[TRUEST]

This happened 6 years ago.
Still dope.

Yeah. Imagine what he can do now.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Great post.. if this was 6 years ago surprised that we haven’t heard more about it and seen an increase in the hearing disabled getting this kind of surgery.

5 stars though

 

[Wargames]

Black Excellence!!

 

[MajesticLion]

That's some really great innovation, here's hoping it continued since then

 

[broller]

Dope. Congratulations to him!