Woman gets new 3D-printed skull

Doctors in the Netherlands have replaced a 22-year-old woman’s skull with a plastic one made using a 3D printer.

It took doctors at the University Medical Center Utrecht 23 hours to perform the surgery.

It looks like they didn’t so much replace the womans skull as replace the “dome’ of her skull (didn’t replace her facebone). She had a condition that caused her skull to thicken;  the skull thickened *inwards* by about 5 cm, compressing her brain and causing all manner of havoc including eyesight trouble. Reportedly, her eyesight has successfully returned.

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Perhaps irrelevantly, perhaps disturbingly or perhaps excitingly, the replacement skull is made out of crystal clear transparent plastic. Supervillains of tomorrow, take notice!