Next year, a surgeon from Dallas intends to visit Ukraine for the fourth time. He recently operated on a wounded Ukrainian soldier who had lost both of his eyes in combat.
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Dr. Jorge Corona is part of a team of Dallas-based medical professionals helping in Ukrainian hospitals.
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Corona, with the aid of a Plano 3D medical printing company, is doing reconstructive surgery on Ukrainian soldiers disfigured in battle.
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Corona was recently able to tour the Medcad facility that 3D prints the prosthetics.
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Dr. Jorge Corona is part of a team of Dallas-based medical professionals helping in Ukrainian hospitals.
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Corona, with the aid of a Plano 3D medical printing company, is doing reconstructive surgery on Ukrainian soldiers disfigured in battle.
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Corona was recently able to tour the Medcad facility that 3D prints the prosthetics.
Dr. Jorge Corona, a surgeon from Dallas, is performing surgery on a Ukrainian soldier wounded by Russian forces inside a hospital in Kyiv as the conflict in Ukraine continues.
In combat, he lost both of his eyes.
Corona recreated the soldier’s face using specially made, 3D printed facial surgery implants that were given by Dallas-based Medcad.
“We’re giving them back a little bit of their humanity that they lost,” Corona stated.
Leap Global Missions of Dallas funded the medical mission.
Corona belongs to the group known as the “Dallas Medical Miracle Team.” He had the opportunity to visit Medcad’s Plano printing facility after returning from Ukraine.
Corona was given a tour of the equipment and the procedure used to fabricate the implants that enable procedures like the one Corona underwent by Medcad’s president and CEO, Nancy Hairston.
“Here is the bed and the titanium is brushed across, and the laser beam hardens each layer,” stated Hairston.
A U.S. citizen Corona met in Kyiv was known as “Gandalf.” Gandalf traveled to Ukraine to enlist in the military and engage in combat with Russian forces. On the front lines, he also sustained injuries.
Gandalf followed up with the surgeon who used Medcad implants to restore his mandibles, but Corona did not perform surgery on him.
“He has a jaw injury,” indicated Corona. “He had a bullet go through his jaw.”
Being trusted by wounded troops who have been disfigured in combat is a blessing, according to Corona, who believes that performing humanitarian work warms his heart.
“I find that I am not going to carry a weapon because I’m not a soldier,” Corona stated. “But in my area of expertise as a doctor, I can deliver care to these patients and hope to the country.”
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Dr. Jorge Corona was interviewed for the information in this article.
Dr. Jorge Corona was interviewed for the information in this article.
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