As a freshman driving home from college for Thanksgiving, Alyssa was in a devastating car crash that shattered her legs and crushed her right ankle. She was airlifted to UF Health, where doctors performed multiple lifesaving surgeries, including placing a donor ankle bone into her badly damaged joint. Within months, the graft began to fail, leaving Alyssa facing the possibility of a fused joint or even amputation. Then, the experts at UF Health suggested a radically new surgery — implanting a 3D-printed chromium alloy ankle bone, precisely engineered to match Alyssa’s body. With her customized ankle replacement, Alyssa didn’t just recover; she got her life back. Today, she can walk across campus with confidence and recently did something that once seemed impossible: She explored Paris on foot with her mom.