A new groundbreaking procedure was used by doctors at Rambam Health Care Campus to implant a titanium jawbone in a Syrian shooting victim, who had come to Israel for medical treatment after a bullet demolished his lower jaw. The 23-year-old Syrian man arrived at Rambam in critical condition after a rifle bullet had completely destroyed his lower jaw, rendering him unable to speak or eat. Israeli doctors outfitted him with a custom-made jaw printed on titanium using 3D Computed Tomography and then implanted it into the victim’s face.
Professor Adi Rachmiel, director of Rambam’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, performed the ground-breaking operation with Dr. Yoav Leiser, who recently returned from training in Germany, where he specialized in restoring eye sockets, jaws, and cheek bones. One day after surgery, the patient was eating and speaking. “We succeeded in returning his human quality,” Leiser said of the patient, whose face had been torn, jaw smashed, and bottom teeth blown out. In the procedure, called a Patient Specific Implant (PSI), doctors created a jaw perfectly suited to the patient. Rambam said that following this success, three additional patients are scheduled to undergo similar innovative treatments.
In 2013 Doctors at the Ziv Hostpital in Safed used a revolutionary surgical technique to allow a badly injured Syrian girl to walk again.
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