AToA · Additive Tech on Anatomy
Plan the operation
before the operation.
Virtual surgical planning and patient-specific 3D printing, from your patient's own scan. Made in Nairobi, in days, not the weeks an overseas bureau takes.
Featured case · Kenyatta National Hospital
A new jaw, cut from the leg, planned before anyone scrubbed.
Resection guides on the jaw, a cutting guide on the fibula, three segments that restore the curve. Every angle decided with the surgeon, on screen, before theatre.
Specialties
Wherever the anatomy decides the operation.
Live
Jaw surgery
Tumour reconstruction, orthognathic correction and facial trauma, guided in theatre.
Live
Dental and orthognathic
Implant guides, orthognathic splints and models from intraoral scans and CBCT.
Live
Orthopaedics and spine
Fracture models, spinal deformity models and screw planning.
New
Cardiac
Structural, congenital, tumour and heart failure planning.
New: Cardiac
Hold the heart before you open it.
A real adult heart from cardiac CT, segmented into ten structures: chambers, great vessels, both coronary trees and the left atrial appendage. Drag to turn it.
Proven where it is hardest
Running inside Kenyatta National Hospital.
Our planning and printing pipeline runs at East Africa's largest public referral hospital, on real cases, under a written quality system.
Scans stay in the hospital.
De-identified on arrival and processed inside the hospital. Nothing identifiable leaves the building.
Four logged checkpoints.
Segmentation check, surgeon approval of the plan, guide fit test, and final surgeon sign-off. No guide enters theatre without the last one.
A written quality system.
Aligned to ISO 13485, audited case by case.
Every case numbered.
A master case registry links each plan, print and outcome, ready for audit and publication.
Built for Kenya's health system
Planned here, paid here, kept here.
Fixed SHA packages
SHA pays specialised surgery as a fixed tariff, so every hour of theatre and every bed-day that planning saves stays with the hospital.
Data stays in Kenya
The Digital Health Act allows personal health information to leave Kenya only for health tourism. We plan here, so the scans stay here.
Fewer referrals abroad
Kenya still sends patients abroad where implants and prostheses are unavailable. Patient-specific planning and manufacturing at home is how that list shrinks.
The evidence
What planning in 3D is worth.
shorter fibula free flap mandible reconstruction with virtual surgical planning, pooled across comparative studies.
Barr 2020, Ann Plast Surgaverage theatre time saved when surgeons plan on a 3D printed anatomical model; 23 minutes with a printed guide.
Ballard 2020, Acad Radiolcomplex congenital heart operations re-planned after the team held a 3D print.
Valverde 2017, Eur J Cardiothorac Surgrisk ratio for device-size disagreement and leak in appendage closure planned on a print, against imaging alone.
DeCampos 2022, Int J CardiolTwo ways to work with us
One case, or a whole service.
Send us a case
You bring the clinical question and the scan. We return a 3D plan for you to approve, then the models and guides, delivered to theatre.
Build a lab in your hospital
We specify and install the equipment, write the quality system, train your team and run the first cases alongside you. Kenyatta National Hospital is our reference site.
Let's talk about your next case.
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