April 30, 2014 -- A British man missing a chunk of his skull has a healthy-looking head again -- thanks to a custom-made titanium plate. Lee Charie, 33, was on vacation in Thailand in December ...

She will then hopefully regain her old smile. To make the titanium plate, prosthesis maker Stefan Edmondson had the section of Malala’s skull with the gap in it reproduced by an object printer.

Malala Yousafzai's Surgery: Building a New Skull The process of constructing the skull plate involves 3-D imaging, various models and titanium.

Doctors doubted American would ski again in 2016 after he suffered 30 skull fractures in a car accident.

The team was able to use the modeling data to create the 3D-printed titanium plate, which replaced 70 percent of the top of the dog's skull. The practice model combined with the pre-made plate ...

BRITISH doctors have said they will insert a titanium plate in the skull of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai to repair a hole left when the Taliban shot her for campaigning for girls education.

Doctors may elect to implant a titanium plate in a patient with a bad fracture, a severe skull injury, or bone degeneration disease. They're not perfect, though.

Titanium plate to be fitted to Malala's skull This animation has been released by Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to illustrate the surgery that Malala will undergo.

Veterinarians 3D printed a new titanium skull plate for a dog with a large tumor growing out of its skull. The dog, named Patches, received the new treatment, thanks to the proposed procedure by ...

Within the next 10 days, doctors will replace a missing part of Malala Yousafzai ‘s skull with a custom-made titanium plate and insert a cochlear implant to repair her shattered eardrum.

She will then hopefully regain her old smile. To make the titanium plate, prosthesis maker Stefan Edmondson had the section of Malala’s skull with the gap in it reproduced by an object printer.