A 22-year-old woman has had the whole top of her skull replaced with a customized 3D-printed implant. The patient had been suffering from severe symptoms as a result of a condition that causes a ...

Two years ago, Teddy fell down a Topanga Canyon, California, hillside and suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him with a gaping hole in his skull. “This was a remarkable defect,” his ...

The skull implant was just approved by the FDA last month. The patient's name and type of injury hasn't been released, but the implant signals a big step forward for the use of 3D-printed ...

The precursor to this achievement was a similar patching done last year, where 75% of a patient's skull was replaced with a 3D-printed implant made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK, a thermoplastic).

By replacing her skull with a 3D printed one — a process that took over 23 hours of surgery — they were able to alleviate that pressure and, three months after the surgery, the doctors report ...

A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant ...

The plastic skull is readied for implantation. Video screenshot by Michael Franco/CNET An entire human cranium can now be added to the growing list of 3D-printed body parts that includes a ...

A 9-year-old dog has a new skull and a cancer-free life because of 3D printing. Patches, the cancer-stricken dachshund, is feeling better thanks to researchers at a Canadian university.

With that information, 3D printing technology was used to rapidly prototype a sort of skull cap that would provide structural support for the dog’s head after the tumor removal was complete.

A 3D-printed model of the Parasaurolophus skulls at a 1:3 scale to the original fossil. The white model is the nasal passages inside the skull. CREDIT: Hongjun Lin ...