{"id":93500,"date":"2019-07-12T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neurosurgeons-successfully-implant-3d-printed-skull"},"modified":"2019-07-12T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:22:38","slug":"neurosurgeons-successfully-implant-3d-printed-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neurosurgeons-successfully-implant-3d-printed-skull","title":{"rendered":"Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurosurgeons-successfully-implant-3d-printed-skull2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder \u2014 which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches \u2014 has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was performed by a team of neurosurgeons at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and the university claims this is this first instance of a successful 3D printed cranium that has not been rejected by the patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder \u2014 which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches \u2014 has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant. The operation was performed by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93500","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}