The precursor to this achievement was a similar patching done last year, where 75% of a patient's skull was replaced with a 3D-printed implant made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK, a thermoplastic).

In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) designed and implanted a transparent window in the skull of ...

The researchers note that the advantages of their new skull option would extend to chronic monitoring of cerebral edema or swelling, and for more precise targeting of therapies for residual gliomas.

During emergency surgery, half of Hager's skull was removed to relieve pressure on his brain. Doctors had planned to replace the skull bone once Hager recovered, but the pandemic derailed those plans.

The transparent implant is inserted into the patient’s skull and is made from material is made out of yttria-stabilized zirconia, a type of ceramic commonly used in hip implants and dental crowns.

A 1.8-million-year old human skull unearthed in Dmanisi, Georgia, is the most complete Homo skull ever found. It suggests only one species of homo erectus.