Science Nation: Medicine and Engineering Join Forces to Restore Disfigured Faces

3D graphic of a human skull. Red latticework joins the area just under the eye sockets to the top of the jaw. Caption: to one day rebuild faces and lives.

Patients who have suffered devastating facial injuries sometimes go to great lengths to hide themselves from public view. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, civil and mechanical engineer Glaucio Paulino saw the possibilities of combining engineering and medical skills to tackle the complex challenge of facial reconstruction. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”

(Source: DCMP)

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  • Science Nation: Medicine and Engineering Join Forces to Restore Disfigured Faces

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    Video
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    Streaming
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    English Audio Descriptions - Visual, English Captions - Auditory
    Languages:
    English
    License:
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    Author:
    National Science Foundation
    Length:
    3 minutes