Medical devices for treatmet of cleft lip and cleft palate after surgical procedure

 

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Autores: Rojas-Soto, Gustavo, De Faria-Castro, David, Rios-Sanabria, Miceldy, Carmona-Infante, Victor
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2017
Beskrivelse:The Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate condition has a low incidence in the population, between 0.014 and 0.2% of births worldwide. However, this illness requires that the patients undergo several surgeries throughout their life; therefore, it has a high impact at physiological and psychological level. The devices normally used are not effective because they offer little ergonomic support, which causes damage to tissues and allergies on infants who are attending on pre-surgical and post-surgical treatments, causing a less positive effect of the treatment. The project is intended to design a proposal post-surgical support device for treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate. The determination of design requirements was detected by interviewing doctors and parents. Subsequently, different 3D technologies were used to capture the face of an infant with the condition and final three proposal devices were modeled. The prototypes were constructed with three different printers and materials, the best result was found by using the PA 2200 material on the EOSINT P 730 printer. The results showed that two out of three devices were well-welcomed by the interviewers, noting that one could be used during the day and the other one at night.
País:Portal de Revistas TEC
Institution:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Sprog:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4315
Online adgang:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/jemd/article/view/4315
Palabra clave:labio leporino
labio paladar hendido
tecnologías en 3D
imágenes 3D
dispositivo médico
prototipado
Cleft Lip
Cleft Palate
3D technologies
3D images
medical device
prototyping