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A 10-year-old from Bavaria got a new skullcap - from a 3D printer.
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Felix is the first child in the world to have a 3D implant made by a clinic inserted into his skull.
The boy was seriously injured in a forestry accident.
Berchtesgaden/Salzburg - 10-year-old Felix from Bavaria had his skull smashed while working on wood.
Thanks to the latest medical technology, he will soon be able to go back to school.
His father calls it a miracle.
Felix's skull shattered in a forestry accident: emergency surgery in Salzburg
After a life-threatening forestry accident in Berchtesgadener Land, doctors successfully fitted the boy with a new 3D-printed skullcap.
As the Salzburg University Hospital reported, Felix was able to leave the hospital on Friday, five weeks after the accident.
It is expected that he will be able to return to school for a few hours a week after the carnival holidays.
“We experienced a miracle,” the boy’s father was quoted as saying.
On December 28th, Felix and his brother helped their father and grandfather with forestry work in their home community of Ainring.
A pull rope broke and a piece of metal about five centimeters in size hit Felix and got stuck in the top of his skull.
The seriously injured boy was taken to nearby Salzburg in a rescue helicopter.
The metal part first had to be removed in a four-hour emergency operation at the university clinic.
At the beginning of January, the clinic's specialists began creating a hand-sized plastic implant using 3D printing to permanently close the skull.
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Boy from Bavaria receives skull implant from the 3D printer
Since September 2023, 24 adults in Salzburg have received such an implant, but never a child.
Since the right part of Felix's skull was massively destroyed, the experts had no original template.
“So we basically had to mirror the head and reconstruct the right skull shape on the computer,” said neurosurgeon Johannes Pöppe.
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According to the spokesman for the university clinic, Felix is the first documented child in the world to have a 3D implant manufactured by a clinic inserted into his skull.
“I don’t feel them at all.
“It doesn’t feel any different than before,” Felix said of his prosthesis.
Now his family and friends want to celebrate New Year's Eve with him.
“We’ll make up for it now,” said his father.
(came/dpa)
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