Personalized Cranial Prosthesis

CRANIAL PROSTHESES

Reconstruction of skull in patients with cranial traumatism.
Objective: cover the damaged part of the skull by implanting a personalized prosthesis.

This project originated from the necessity of creating a low cost prostheses to benefit patients from a public hospital.

A process was developed to design and produce the prostheses using CAD software and 3D Printers.

Cost reduction compared with existing titanium Implants

Better aesthetic results

Reduction of surgical procedure time

Less risk of infections after surgery

* All these results are a comparison between comercial titanium implants and PMMA implants developed by our process.

33 Patients

Benefited by this project in the last 3 years

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1 Honorific Mention

As the best project in healtchare in SID8, Azuay Univeristy, Ecuador

1 Filed Patent

By the Mexican institute of intellectual Property.

1 Clinical Article

Published at the Journal of Neurosurgery in 2018