3D printing cures childhood airway disease

In a new medical breakthrough for 3D printing, US doctors have saved the lives of three children with a fatal airway disease by creating personalized implants that their bodies can absorb. Kaiba Gionfriddo, the first child to undergo the procedure, was three months old when he had the surgery. "This is the first cure of this condition," said senior author Glenn Green, associate professor of pediatric otolaryngology of the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital