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Company Begins Making “Patient-Specific” 3D Printed Prosthetic Testicles
Sadly, there are quite a few men out there who ve lost their testicles to cancer, tumors, torsions, and other terrible (albeit sometimes hilarious) injuries. While doctors can oftentimes prescribe a prosthetic set, it still takes a psychological toll not unlike that a woman feels after a mastectomy.
The problem is the current market in Korea has many high-cost, low-quality options, but nothing cost effective that provides a similar feeling. According to a Korean team of scientists, replacements of poor quality can cause “psychic impotence,” and an “inferiority complex” that causes “personal relationships to fail.”