3D Printing Technology Helps Surgeons Reconstruct Baby’s Skull

February 27, 2014

baby3dprinting_sized A week after baby Gabriel was born last August, his parents noticed that the infant's forehead looked abnormal. Father Manuel Dela Cruz and his wife took the newborn to their pediatrician, where he was diagnosed with unilateral coronal synostosis – also known as anterior plagiocephaly. For infants with this condition, a growth plate fuses prematurely…

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