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Purpose: Traditionally maxillofacial prostheses are fabricated by hand carving the missing anatomical defect in wax,and creating a mould into which pigmented silicone elastomer is placed.Modern technologies have been used to manufacture anatomical face/body parts utilizing computed tomography(CT)data in conjunction with rapid prototyping(RP)techniques utilizing a hard plastic resin or thermoformed wax.However,these methods still require moulds into which a biocompatible pigmented silicone elastomer is placed.The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of direct printing of two component silicone elastomers suitable for creating facial/body prostheses.