Thursday, 27 March 2014

Medical Miracle With Technology, Woman Gets A 3D Printed Skull

The 3D printing is a evolving technology yet, since it foundation several objects printed out, even body parts and now a new Medical miracle happen in Germany an entire Skull is added to 3D printed body parts list including a fingertip, hand, eyes, arm, jaw. A 22 year old Dutch woman nearly dead needed a new skull to replace the existed so an Australian company 3D printed a plastic skull at Utrecht University's University Medical Center in Netherlands. The operation took 23 hours to put the skull on to head and now she’s return to work and hard to find that she ever had any surgery. Before the operation, the woman head were too large and abnormal, and thickness put too much pressure on her brain which causes her unconsciousness and headaches.


Cnet posted “Implants used to be made by hand in the operating theater using a sort of cement which was far from ideal, Verweij said of the procedure, according to Dutch News. Using 3D printing we can make one to the exact size. This not only has great cosmetic advantages, but patients' brain function often recovers better than using the old method. Verweiji says that although portions of skulls have been swapped out in the past, this is the first time an entire cranium has been replaced in a patient. And I bet this is the first time you've ever seen a plastic skull get attached to a real live brain.”
The 3D printing technology is evolving and many expert companies in the fields have raised millions to develop and Sharpe it more. Several 3D printed items in the list which are slightly bigger then we can imagine.

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