{"id":122046,"date":"2021-04-28T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/skin-and-bones-repaired-by-bioprinting-during-surgery"},"modified":"2021-04-28T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:22:17","slug":"skin-and-bones-repaired-by-bioprinting-during-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/skin-and-bones-repaired-by-bioprinting-during-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skin-and-bones-repaired-by-bioprinting-during-surgery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting during surgery, and their work may lead to faster and better methods of healing skin and bones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is clinically significant,\u201d said Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, Hartz Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery, Penn State. \u201cDealing with composite defects, fixing hard and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/soft+tissues\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft tissues<\/a> at once, is difficult. And for the craniofacial area, the results have to be esthetically pleasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, fixing a hole in the skull involving both <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a> and soft tissue requires using bone from another part of the patient\u2019s body or a cadaver. The bone must be covered by soft tissue with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+flow\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood flow<\/a>, also harvested from somewhere else, or the bone will die. Then surgeons need to repair the soft tissue and skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting during surgery, and their work may lead to faster and better methods of healing skin and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1503,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}