Evaluación de procesos de manufactura aditiva en la reproducción volumétrica de los detalles de un diseño 3D de una futura prótesis óculo-palpebral

Abstract

Prosthetic restorations are made to adapt or attach missing human parts in order to restore function and appearance. Maxillofacial defects connote a greater impact on patients, since the face cannot be concealed, and all the senses of the human body are expressed in it. Therefore, in order to restore the patient’s quality of life, they are the ones that require the best possible adaptation to the characteristics of the patients. In order for the maxillofacial prostheses to fit patients, they must be personalized for each patient. The NGO Mais Identitade is a multidisciplinary team that specializes in the rehabilitation of patients with maxillofacial trauma. They use digital manufacturing as a tool to manufacture personalized maxillofacial prostheses for patients. With the help of the NGO, the following research is conducted with the purpose of evaluating different methods of additive manufacturing, 3D printing, in order to select the equipment that suits the needs of the method used in the manufacture of maxillofacial prostheses. To this end, eyelid models will be manufactured in different additive manufacturing equipment, and these will be evaluated according to their economic, physical, and aesthetic characteristics.

Date of Award	2022
Original language	Spanish (Peru)
Supervisor	Wilson Alexander Hormaza Rodriguez (Asesor) & Rodrigo Salazar Gamarra (Asesor)