NHS first: Hackney man to get world’s first 3D printed prosthetic eye at Moorfields hospital in London today

Steve Varze, from Hackney, will today become the first person in the world to get a 3D printed prosthetic eye. The Londoner will receive the eye later today at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Currently, patients undergo a two-hour session to mould their eye socket, before the prosthesis is fitted and then painted. This process takes six [...]