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Hackney man first to receive 3D-printed prosthetic eye

BBC News

November 25, 2021

A hospital patient will become the first person in the world to have a 3D-printed prosthetic eye.

Steve Verze, from Hackney, east London, will receive the eye on Thursday at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

It is hoped the eye will be more realistic than a traditional acrylic prosthetic eye.