Third Annual Digitial Design in Facial Prosthetics Course: Postponed
The course has been postponed, but we will announce a new date soon. Please keep in touch for further information.
Computer aided design and additive manufacturing technologies are enabling a revolution in the way head and neck reconstruction is delivered to improve patient outcomes. From surgical planning through to prosthetic rehabilitation, keeping up to date with the latest advances is critical in modern healthcare environments.
This is the only independent course of its kind where you can gain hands-on experience of the full range of state-of-the-art technologies from different manufacturers.
Format:
The course will combine hands-on tuition with comprehensive lectures and demonstrations on the latest technologies and techniques used in research and clinical practice. The programme will be delivered by a highly experienced, international faculty, providing participants with the confidence to move their traditional practice in a digital direction.
Aims & objectives:
The course aims to provide participants with the confidence to move their traditional practice in a digital direction. The objectives are to:
- Introduce participants to a range of technologies used to plan prosthetic rehabilitation, design prostheses and fabricate them using state of the art technologies.
- Provide hands-on, case-led tuition on a range of technologies that will challenge participants to design and fabricate their own prostheses.
- Provide participants with knowledge of research state of the art delivered through lectures by the course facilitators and guest researchers from translational areas such as surgery and dental technology.
- Provide sufficient information that will enable participants to make an informed decision on how best to integrate technologies into their practice.
Intended audience:
Whether you’re a clinical practitioner, designer, medical engineer, creative medical artist or researcher, this is an exciting opportunity to engage with the latest digital technologies and discover how they can be effectively applied in bespoke medical device production.
Although focussed on facial prosthetics, the technologies are highly translatable to many areas where art and sculpture meets engineering and materials science.
Scope & content:
The course will provide experience on a range of the latest techniques in digital, computer-aided technologies. It will cover:
- Computer-aided colour matching
- 3D surgical planning of implant placement
- 3D facial capture
- Computer aided design of prosthesis forms and mould tools
- Rapid prototyping/additive manufacture of prostheses
- Introduction to translational areas of research and surgical procedures through lectures
The course is designed to enable participants, with guidance, to produce their own prosthesis based on the techniques learnt. Feedback from an experienced prosthetist will be provided to the participants. Participants who have signed in each day and completed the course objectives will receive a certificate.
When: TBC
Where: PDR, Cardiff, UK
Price: £700
10% Discounts available to IMPT, IAA, ISAPE and ISMR members.
A further, significant further discounted rate is available to students.
Please contact us for further details.
CPD: IMPT CPD points have been approved. Contact us for details.
Hosted by: CARTIS, iRSM & the University of Illinois at Chicago
Contact: Dominic Eggbeer to register your interest and book your place.
Partner links:
- The National Centre for Product Design and Development Research (PDR)
- Institute of Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine (iRSM)
- The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Sponsored and supported by:
The Cardiff Area:
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Local Hotels:
Churchills is very close to the Cardiff Metropolitan University Llandaff Campus where the course will be held. Rooms are a reasonable £45/night for a single. Other hotels are available, so please contact us for details.