News - The world's first 3D printed skull replacement transplant (video)

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A Dutch woman with a rare bone condition gets her whole skull replaced by a printed plastic part.

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[slipthemonkey]

It's stuff like this that makes me love science and technology!

[Gh0sty]

That's an amazing use of 3D printing!

[KrisWragg]

Wow that's pretty amazing! I would have got one printed from titanium or something, then you would be one step closer to being Wolverine!

[Meowdance]

Sweet, someone print me a kevlar skull?

[devBunny]

"the world's first full 3D printed total skull transplant,"

"Although parts of skulls have been swapped out in the past, this procedure is the first time an entire cranium has been replaced in a patient."

You do know that the cranium is only a part of the skull, don't you? So no total skull then.

Furthermore they didn't even replace the whole of the cranium (which is everything apart from the mandible). If they had then she'd have had her eyes transplanted into new sockets and and her internal nasal tissues similarly given a new home, along with her entire brain. That's not gonna happen any time soon. It wasn't even the whole of the brain case!

The first article that you linked to gave a truer story

"A 22-year old woman .. has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant.

That's impressive enough. Your title and copy is a let down. Sorry, but you have to lose serious credibility points for this unnecessary hype.

[mack_5991]

That is freaking impressive.