3D printing has plenty of fun use cases and just as many practical ones, but it's projects like this that remind us how imperative technology like this is as a whole to mankind. According to the BBC, Dave Richards became the first patient at the Bristol 3D Medical Centre in the UK after encountering a terrible accident while riding a bicycle, receiving a new 3D printed face in the process.
The Bristol 3D Medical Centre is among the first, and is possibly the first, facility in the UK to incorporate both 3D imaging and 3D printing into one location. Here, patients can receive care in the form of critical 3D scans of their body or, like in Richards' case, they can be fitted for custom prosthetics.
