Mortuary house advances body restoration with 3D printing technology in south China
Last updated on: 03 April,2019 07:12 pm
Mortuary beauticians use plasticine and plaster to repair and reshape damaged faces of the deceased.
A mortuary house started a new body restoration service with 3D printing technology on Tuesday in Guangzhou City of south China s Guangdong Province.
This involves inserting a body part image and a computer will formulate a 3D stereo gram, which can be printed out by a 3D printer.
"After the printing completes, we can get a male mold. Then we will make a more detailed female mold from it with plaster. By injecting silica gel on the female mold, we will get the face mask we need, and then we will work on makeup as well as hair transplant," said Liu Zheng, member with 3D printing body restoration work room in Guangzhou Mortuary House.
In traditional body restoration work, mortuary beauticians usually use plasticine and plaster to repair and reshape damaged faces of the deceased. The work done by hand takes a lot of time and is difficult to restore the original appearance.
With 3D printing technology, it takes only a week to do a full facial restoration. It takes an even shorter time for a partial repair, usually one to two days.
"People who need the service can contact the relevant department of the mortuary house. The price has not been decided, but it will depends on the difficulty. Take the current situation in Shanghai and Beijing for reference, an ordinary case will cost about 10,000 to 20,000," said Li Zhijian, manager of Guangzhou Mortuary House.