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Digital medical modeling enables doctors to reconstruct one side of the face by using a mirror image of the other. Certainly computers can do this better than the most skilled artist could. Likewise, segmentation can be used to reconstruct an entire limb. After the modeling part has been done, the model is meshed and modified by means of FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software before finally being fitted.
Women in particular often have breast augmentations done on them, and this fact is familiar through celebrities and the media. We all know how Britney Spears had her infamous "boob job;" her hit song "...Baby One More Time" was parodied on the Internet as "Make My Boobies One More Size." And there is that episode of the "Simpsons" (Large Marge) where Marge got that implant as a result of a medical mix- up (though she ends up saving the day!).
Also a sixteen- year- old girl suffering from Langer- Giedion syndrome- a rare disorder caused by the absence of certain chromosomes, and which is characterized by abnormalities in the skull structure- had her facial asymmetry corrected with a computer- designed implant that fit her face perfectly. It also fastened her jaws together in such a way that the tortuous pain that she had had whenever chewing, was gone. Implants were added to her jaws, chin, and the areas just beneath the girl's eye sockets.
Skin and bones are not the only body tissues that can be reproduced through computer design. Tissue... Electronic cochlear implants are also being used. And in the field of dentistry, titanium implants anchoring directly into the jawbone have been developed as replacements for missing teeth.
From what has been said, it is quite clear that modern implants have benefits that earlier ones could not have provided, or not to the same extent. As Design News senior editor Joseph Ogando said in the October 6, 2008 issue of that periodical, "It looks like MedCad will have no shortage of patients to help," and medical technology can help to make life more comfortable for those who have suffered from physical injury.
Women in particular often have breast augmentations done on them, and this fact is familiar through celebrities and the media. We all know how Britney Spears had her infamous "boob job;" her hit song "...Baby One More Time" was parodied on the Internet as "Make My Boobies One More Size." And there is that episode of the "Simpsons" (Large Marge) where Marge got that implant as a result of a medical mix- up (though she ends up saving the day!).
Also a sixteen- year- old girl suffering from Langer- Giedion syndrome- a rare disorder caused by the absence of certain chromosomes, and which is characterized by abnormalities in the skull structure- had her facial asymmetry corrected with a computer- designed implant that fit her face perfectly. It also fastened her jaws together in such a way that the tortuous pain that she had had whenever chewing, was gone. Implants were added to her jaws, chin, and the areas just beneath the girl's eye sockets.
Skin and bones are not the only body tissues that can be reproduced through computer design. Tissue... Electronic cochlear implants are also being used. And in the field of dentistry, titanium implants anchoring directly into the jawbone have been developed as replacements for missing teeth.
From what has been said, it is quite clear that modern implants have benefits that earlier ones could not have provided, or not to the same extent. As Design News senior editor Joseph Ogando said in the October 6, 2008 issue of that periodical, "It looks like MedCad will have no shortage of patients to help," and medical technology can help to make life more comfortable for those who have suffered from physical injury.
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