toucan beak prosthesis

"Pirata" is toucan that was rescued with a broken beak, broken wing and without a eye(that's why the name). The Zoo of Brasília asked for help to gave him more comfortable life in captive. So we decide to make a beak prosthesis.

1. Scan of toucan skull(the zoo museum helped us with that);
(https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4501205)

2. Pre-desing and FDM printing of the mold(in red in the pictures). We casted a copy of the broken gnatoteca in plaster with this mold to ensure the right positioning.

3. Photogrammetry of the casted copy of the gnatoteca using RealityCapture;

4. Final design with custom fit for "Pirata";

5. Resin printing and fit testing. We made it with a transparent material and the fixation was made with a red pigmented epoxy resin. That way we could see the filling of the spaces between the beak and the prosthesis


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