MBI Graduate program: ME:120.716

Medical Sculpture

Offered: 3rd Quarter, 1st Year
Instructors: Juan Garcia, Associate Professor
Credits: 3 Credits

summary

Survey of materials and techniques for creating custom medical sculptures

Course Description

Objectives

  • Demonstrate the ability to safely and accurately work with a patient taking full and partial face impressions using alginate and polyvinylsiloxane (PVS)-based impression materials
  • Recognize factors and applications for different mold-making designs, including flexible and rigid molds
  • Demonstrate knowledge of handling skills, physical properties and applications of materials used in mold making and casting of medical sculptures (i.e. including alginate, wax, silicone, clear resin, polyurethane resin, acrylic, and gypsum)
  • Describe the scope of practice of the anaplastologist, understand the various types of prosthetic devices made, retention options, treatment planning considerations, and patient groups treated
  • Demonstrate the ability to use proper medical terminology for auricular and nasal surface anatomy. Understand terminology of surgical procedures associated with craniofacial prosthetics
  • Describe the various steps involved in creating a custom facial prosthesis: including treatment planning, impression, patient gypsum model, wax prototype, mold-making, intrinsic color mixing and packing, casting, finishing and extrinsic coloration.
  • Demonstrate the ability to observe 3D forms and accurately reproduce these both traditionally and digitally
  • Describe process for using advanced 3D technologies such as reconstruction of DICOM datasets, photogrammetry capture, surface laser scanning, digital sculpting, and 3D printing
  • Demonstrate ability to use 3D digital sculpting (Pixologic ZBrush) software for modeling medical subject matter and create a turntable movie
  • Recognize factors necessary to prepare 3D files for animation (such as topology) or 3D printing (such as watertight geometry)

Assignments

Students will further develop their skills through class lectures/demonstrations, and class exercises, including:

  • Nasal and auricular traditional clay and digital sculpting exercises
  • Self selected topic and Cranium digital sculpting exercises
  • Digital or traditional custom medical sculpture (anatomical, pathological or facial prosthetic)
  • Critique topic presentations

Student Evaluations

  • Instructor rating
  • Class discussion and participation
  • Successful completion of above-mentioned assignments
  • Critique of project along with PowerPoint presentation of topic of choice

Resources

Class lectures, handouts, reference books, journal articles, product literature, instructional videos, instructor led supervised coaching, demonstrations, and hands-on-practice.

Schedule

Refer to 1st year calendars and syllabi.

Student Artwork

Gallery of 3D Sculpture, Interactives and Prints

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