Patient has 75 per cent of his SKULL replaced with 3D-printed implant in groundbreaking operation
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Subject: Patient has 75 per cent of his SKULL replaced with 3D-printed implant in groundbreaking operation Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:32 am
A patient in America has had 75 per cent of their skull replaced with a 3D-printed implant in a pioneering operation.
The creators of the implant now hope that they will be able to use 3D-printing to replace missing or damaged bones in other parts of the body.
The unnamed patient had their head scanned by researchers at Oxford Performance Materials, in Connecticut, who then used it to print out a replacement 'cap' that was implanted.
Subject: Patient has 75 per cent of his SKULL replaced with 3D-printed implant in groundbreaking operation 
Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:32 am
