Institutional development · Research, innovation and assessment · South Africa
Changing Faces, Changing Lives initiative reports more than 5,000 facial reconstruction patients
Universities South Africa reports that a facial reconstruction initiative has treated more than 5,000 patients across South Africa's public and private health sectors.
Why it matters: Patients with severe facial disfigurement from cancer, trauma or congenital conditions in South Africa are the group this initiative reports serving.
Universities South Africa (USAf), the country's association of universities, reports that the Changing Faces, Changing Lives initiative has treated more than 5,000 patients in South Africa's public and private health sectors.
According to USAf, the project treats patients with severe facial disfigurements caused by cancer, trauma or congenital conditions.
USAf links the initiative to what it describes as Africa's first titanium 3D printer and says the project has reached several global medical and technological milestones.
Editor’s view
Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor
Patients with severe facial disfigurement in South Africa's public and private health sectors are the people directly affected; USAf reports that more than 5,000 have been treated through the initiative so far.
