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A huge amount of 3D printing in the Healthcare industry is used for visualization. Doctors can use the data from a CT scan to print a model of what they will be operating on to scale. They use these models to prepare for complex surgeries eliminating any surprises they may have run into otherwise.
Recently Richard Kim, MD, a cardiac surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, recently used a 3D printed heart as a model to plan a life-saving procedure for his young patient. The child was born with a rare, life-threatening cardiac defect.

Artificial teeth that detect when people chew, drink, speak and cough could help people track exactly how much they eat, along with other aspects of their health, researchers say.
In a study, the scientists used dental cement to glue sensors onto the teeth of eight volunteers.

Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-size capsule you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist.