LayerWise builds the world’s first patient-specific lower jaw from CAD
LayerWise applied Additive Manufacturing (AM) to produce an Titanium total lower jaw implant reconstruction directly from CAD. The award-winning implant was developed in collaboration with project partners from medical industries and academia. To treat a senior patient’s progressive osteomyelitis of almost the entire lower jaw bone, medical specialists and surgeons opted for such a complete patient-specific implant the first time ever. AM technology specialists at LayerWise printed the complex implant design incorporating articulated joints and dedicated features.