UCT engineers help make medical history by teaming up with maxillo-facial surgeon

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Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2012

UCT mechanical engineer Dr George Vicatos, his MSc student James Boonzaier and a leading maxillo-facial oral surgeon Dr Rushdi Hendricks teamed up to rebuild the upper jaw of a patients palate.
In a benchmarking and already award-winning piece of surgery - likely a world first - in September 2011, they harnessed some established surgical principles and fine metalwork to rebuild a patient's entire missing palate.

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  • that's myuct!!

  • viva!!

  • Viva UCT!! Truly amazing.

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