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3D Printed Parotid Gland and Facial Nerve Dissection
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3D Printed Parotid Gland and Facial Nerve Dissection
This 3D model provides a superficial dissection window into the lateral face to demonstrate the anatomy of the
parotid gland relative to surface features and neurovascular structures. These structures are of particular
significance for management in Mohs surgery in the management of skin cancers, or in certain plastic and
reconstructive surgical procedures.
The opened window extends from just anterior to the external ear, from the
level of the zygomatic arch to the angle of the mandible and extending from the anterior margin of the masseter
muscle to the origin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Exposed within the window is the bulk of the parotid gland,
with the superior portions of the gland removed to demonstrate the superficial temporal artery and the facial nerve
dividing into the superior terminal branches (e.g., the temporal, zygomatic and buccal). The parotid duct traverses
the opened dissection window before passing towards the buccal region (and its termination into the buccinator
muscle). An ascending branch of the great auricular nerve can be observed along the inferior and posterior margins
of the parotid gland, and just anterior relative to the sternocleidomastoid.
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The models are very detailed and delicate. With normal production machines you cannot realize such details like shown in these models.
The printer used is a color-plastic printer. This is the most suitable printer for these models.
The plastic material is already the best and most suitable material for these prints. (The other option would be a kind of gypsum, but this is way more fragile. You even cannot get them out of the printer without breaking them).The huge advantage of the prints is that they are very realistic as the data is coming from real human specimen. Nothing is shaped or stylized.
The users have to handle these prints with utmost care. They are not made for touching or bending any thin nerves, arteries, vessels etc. The 3D printed models should sit on a table and just rotated at the table.