3D Printed Implant can replace 75% of bones in Human Skull

If a 3D printing can build a house, a robo-hand for a 5 year old kid, then why can’t the technology replace bones in human skull? With the help of 3D printing technology, doctors has replaced 75% of patient’s skull with the approval of U.S regulators. The technology can replace the bone in human skull which was damaged due to disease or trauma, according to the reports from Oxford Performance Materials. U.S Food and Drug Administration has given an approval for implementing skull implantation on February 18, which helped the company to carry out their first operation on March 4th. The technology uses the digitally scanned model of a human skull and printing out a corresponding 3D object layer by layer.

“We see no part of the orthopedic industry being untouched by this,” said Scott DeFelice, president of Oxford Performance Materials.

According to the interview by DeFelice, about 300 to 500 patients in U.S can take this operation every month. The people who have been diagnosed with cancer bone in their skulls, accident victims and members of U.S military struggling from head trauma can take up this operation.