The Rehabilitation Department of Chenzhou First People's Hospital combined with 3D printing center to make guide plate for precise treatment of facial neuritis with 3D printing technology, and achieved good results. 

According to He Yucheng, Deputy Director of 3D Printing Center of Chenzhou First People's Hospital, after more than one year's intensive research, continuous exploration and thinking, Xie Yuhua, Deputy Director of Rehabilitation Medicine Department of Chenzhou First People's Hospital, questioned the pathogenesis of traditional facial neuritis. After inference and repeated clinical verification, he proposed the pathogenesis of nerve entrapment. Under the innovative and transformative thinking, he combined advanced 3D printing technology to safely and accurately navigate nerve entrapment position, and implement relaxation and psychotherapy, making breakthrough progress in the curative effect of facial neuritis, greatly shortening the recovery time of facial paralysis, and effectively preventing the sequelae of permanent facial paralysis.

Deputy Chief Physician Xie Yuhua said that facial neuritis, commonly known as facial paralysis, is a disease characterized by motor dysfunction of facial expression muscles. It is a common and frequently-occurring disease, not limited by age. The general symptoms are deviation of the mouth and eyes, and patients often can not complete even the most basic movements such as raising eyebrows, closing eyes, and drumming.

3D printing technology personalized guide navigation can solve the problem, with the advantages of safety, accuracy, convenience and effectiveness. The current treatment of facial neuritis uses medicine plus acupuncture and moxibustion, which has a long course of treatment, with an average recovery time of 1 to 3 months. More than 20 percent of the patients have the sequelae of life-long facial paralysis. After facial disfigurement, the patients are very painful, lack of self-confidence, depression and often refuse to participate in social interaction. Early patients with precise positioning therapy can recover within a short period of time, most of them recover within 10 days, greatly shortening the course of disease, significantly reducing the occurrence of sequelae.

After a large number of clinical verification of facial neuritis patients, the precise treatment under the 3D printing navigation is safe and efficient, greatly shortening the course of disease, and effectively preventing the emergence of permanent facial paralysis sequelae.