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3-Year-Old Becomes World's First To Receive Full 3D Skull Surgery
A 3-year-old girl in China will finally be able to lift her head from the pillow after receiving the world’s first full skull reconstruction surgery via 3D printing technology. The toddler, referred to as “Han Han,” underwent 17 hours of surgery at the Second People’s Hospital of Hunan Province in China after suffering from a rare condition that caused her head to grow four times the normal size.
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3D printing in medicine is going to explode. There's just so many applications for it. I can't wait until they're able to 3D print organs instead of using organ donors