Three dimensional printing of a low-cost middle-ear training model for surgical management of otosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical management of otosclerosis is technically challenging with studies demonstrating that outcomes are commensurate with surgical experience. Moreover, experts apply less force on the ossicular chain during prosthesis placement than their novice counterparts. Given the predicted decreasing patient pool and the rising cost of human temporal bone specimens it has become more challenging for trainees to receive adequate intraoperative or laboratory-based experience in this procedure. As such, there is a need for a low-cost training model for the procedure. Here we describe such a model.

Methods

A surgical model of the middle ear was designed using computer aided design (CAD) software. The model consists of four components, the superior three dimensional (3D)-pri

SUBMITTER: Razavi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8513458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature