{"id":137682,"date":"2022-04-03T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/surgeons-implant-printed-earlobe-in-a-work-accident-victim"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:23:12","slug":"surgeons-implant-printed-earlobe-in-a-work-accident-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/surgeons-implant-printed-earlobe-in-a-work-accident-victim","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons implant printed earlobe in a work-accident victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surgeons-implant-printed-earlobe-in-a-work-accident-victim.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 55-year-old man who lost half of his external ear in a work accident in a carpentry shop that couldn\u2019t be reattached nevertheless has a new ear lobe instead.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic surgeons at Jerusalem\u2019s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) used advanced technology and artificial cartilage to sculpt a new earlobe and implant it on the side of the accident victim\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was rushed to SZMC\u2019s emergency department after a wooden surface fell on him and caused the loss of the upp\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAt first, I didn\u2019t feel the lack of an ear,\u201d said the patient, an Arab who works in the Jerusalem area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old man who lost half of his external ear in a work accident in a carpentry shop that couldn\u2019t be reattached nevertheless has a new ear lobe instead. Plastic surgeons at Jerusalem\u2019s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) used advanced technology and artificial cartilage to sculpt a new earlobe and implant it on the side [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}