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Smart personalized implants

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Our goal is to develop and test clinically relevant patient-specific metamaterial implants with reduced stress-shielding effect, which will improve the health and quality of life of head-and-neck cancer patients.

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Jorn-Ids Heins

Industrial engineer and 3D design expert

Ph.D. student at the University Medical Center Groningen

Our team

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Bram Merema

Mechanical Engineer and 3D Design Expert at the 3D Lab of the University Medical Center Groningen

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Max Witjes

Professor, Oral surgeon-oncologist

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Anastasiia Krushynska

Expert in metamaterials design
Adjunct professor

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Joep Kraeima

Technical Physician, Coordinator of the 3D-lab, and 3D-expert OMFS at the 3D Lab 

Project coordinator

Project partners

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