{"id":9866,"date":"2014-02-21T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2014-02-21T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:13:11","slug":"3d-printing-model-babys-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2014\/02\/3d-printing-model-babys-skull\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Used To Model Baby’s Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"
Drs. Michael Egnor and Elliot Duboys recently used a 3D printed model of a baby’s skull in an intricate surgery to correct anterior plagiocephaly.<\/p>\n
The infant, Gabriel Dela Cruz, was born with a normal skull but shortly after birth the bony plates one side of this skull began to fuse prematurely, causing a badly misshapen head.<\/p>\n