When a teacher in Erie went to the dentist to figure out why his jaw felt funny, he thought it might be receding gums, an issue with his teeth or just the normal aches and pains of aging. But when he learned what was really happening to him, he turned to a surgeon in Pittsburgh to solve it, and that surgeon turned on his 3D printer.

Andy Potocki went to the dentist in February of 2024 and asked his hygienist about some tenderness in his jaw.

"She said, 'well, let's take a pano and see,' and so they did a panoramic X-ray, and boom, there it was," Potocki said.

Potocki, a father, science teacher, hockey player and wedding DJ up in Erie, had a tumor invading his jawbone. It was pushing aside his teeth and growing around his nerves. He met with an oral surgeon who diagnosed him with amelobl

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