The girl put a new skull printed on the 3D-printer

22-year-old girl from the Netherlands with a chronic disease of bone - because of what her skull thickness increased by 1, 5-5 cm, causing blurred vision and headaches - did успешную transplant top of the cranium, replace it with a plastic implant is printed on the 3D-printer.

The new body is made of plastic poluprozprachnogo.


The operation took 23 hours. Her group had surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht. According to representatives of the University, the world's first case of transplantation of the skull, which was not cut off by the body.

Modern technologies literally saved the life of a girl. Her own skull was so thick that serious brain damage or death would be inevitable in the near future. Fix the problem without an organ transplant in this case was not possible.

The implant is made-to-order from durable plastic, the name is not called. After surgery, the patient returned to the view, it does not show any symptoms of the disease and is fully functional.

Experts previously printed on 3D-printer skull fragments , but the first time they were able to transplant such a big implant.



In the future, this technique will be used to replace other bones in the human body, as well as for the reconstruction of the damaged fragments of the skull.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/217293/