{"id":27117,"date":"2016-06-22T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/boston-childrens-hospital-uses-3d-printing-to-help-baby-born-with-brain-outside-his-skull"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:09","slug":"boston-childrens-hospital-uses-3d-printing-to-help-baby-born-with-brain-outside-his-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/boston-childrens-hospital-uses-3d-printing-to-help-baby-born-with-brain-outside-his-skull","title":{"rendered":"Boston Children\u2019s Hospital uses 3D printing to help baby born with brain outside his skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boston-childrens-hospital-uses-3d-printing-to-help-baby-born-with-brain-outside-his-skull.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3D Printing never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Doctors at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital used a 3D printout of a boy\u2019s skull to prepare for the surgery that saved his life, STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/15\/birth-defect-baby-boston-childrens-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley Yoder was born with encephalocele, a rare and often fatal defect in which the skull doesn\u2019t form properly. In Bentley\u2019s case, a significant portion of his brain grew outside of his skull, according to STAT. Despite being told he would not survive, his parents, Dustin and Sierra, continued to seek treatment that would give their son a future, eventually traveling from their home in Ohio to Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Aided by 3D models of Bentley\u2019s brain, Dr. John Meara performed the risky surgery on May 24 to save the 7-month-old\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/health\/2016\/06\/22\/boston-childrens-hospital-uses-3-d-printing-help-baby-born-brain-outside-skull\">http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/health\/2016\/06\/22\/boston-children...side-skull<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D Printing never ceases to amaze me. Doctors at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital used a 3D printout of a boy\u2019s skull to prepare for the surgery that saved his life, STAT reports. Bentley Yoder was born with encephalocele, a rare and often fatal defect in which the skull doesn\u2019t form properly. In Bentley\u2019s case, a significant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67121,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27117\/revisions\/67121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}