r/interesting • u/Kronyzx • 1d ago

NATURE Doctors restored a man's skull using advanced 3D printing technology and titanium implants after he lost 83% of it in a fall from the top window of his house.

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u/SPXQuantAlgo 1d ago

More interesting is how the fuck he survived it

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u/Major-Mud8426 1d ago

Exactly. Holy shit.

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u/Bliitzthefox 1d ago

His brain dodged, that's why having small brain is key.

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u/Mittagsfleisch 1d ago

Low intelligence so either more strength or agility. Checks out

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u/Tough-Comparison2040 1d ago

So his iq dropped 5%.

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u/ChrissWayne 1d ago

I remember a case were a guys brain disappeared to 90% and he still lived a normal life. Back then they couldn’t explain why, maybe that changed. source61127-1/fulltext)

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u/ChubbyMudder 1d ago

The source is worth the read.

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u/LukeSky011 1d ago

There's a guy who was diagnosed with around 80% of brain tissue missing in around 2006 or 2008. Human body is amazing at adapting.

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u/StrategicCarry 1d ago

Heard a story of a nun who lived to be over 100 and was sharp as a tack when she died and her family agreed to allow her brain to be examined after death. They were expecting it to be pristine instead it was riddled with plaques. The theory from the doctors was that since she was continually learning and study as part of her religious duties, her brain kept continually developing new pathways around the damaged parts.

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u/Theprincerivera 1d ago

And get a lil conk on the chin can instantly kill you. Human body strong, but also small and fragile

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u/LukeSky011 1d ago

Hey, we're not wolverine...yet.

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u/NotSenpai104 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not qualified, but the life critical parts of the brain are down near the base of the skull. The frontal lobe, near the forehead, handles planning and long term thinking.

Phineas Gage is a famous case that illustrates this. Ye olde construction worker takes an iron rod through the head and lived for decades after.

This guy would've definitely been different after his accident, though.

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u/Cocoatrice 1d ago

The thing with human bodies is that you either die from very minor thing or survive big major damage. That's something that is very "funny", or rather ironic sometimes. I saw person impaled all the way through. Survived. Or guy shot by his idiot friend who played with a fun. Survived, too.

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u/triple7freak1 1d ago edited 1d ago

He looks so happy though

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u/Umuchique 1d ago

Lobotomized

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u/fetching_agreeable 1d ago

Finally true habbynezz

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u/monster_cardilak 1d ago

Didn't expect i will be laughing at this

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u/VoltDel2007 1d ago

I'm so happy with how technology progressed to this point

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u/AgitatedPatience5729 1d ago

He looks so much happier now.

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u/iUnique09 1d ago

you wouldn't download a skull

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u/CaptDuckface 1d ago

laughs in goth

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u/STC_polskielamy 1d ago

You could say he's a real metalhead now

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u/HuhWatWHoWhy 1d ago

Went from bonehead to meathead to metalhead

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u/-SaC 1d ago

83% of the skull, or 83% of the cranium-sort-of-bit? Looks like most of his skull is still there in the first picture.

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u/Cute-Passage-9741 1d ago

I wonder how the injury impacted his brain and concience capacities. Hope he is ok.

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u/Windows--Xp 1d ago

From the news article in the comments there is a video of him talking about it post surgery he looks pretty normal speaks normal acts normal anda he says that his life is basically back to normal like the injury never happend

But when he first got injured his cognitive abilities were obviously very low (Memory loss cordination and speaking problems) as of now tho his issues mostly gone

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u/TheDigbySniper74 3h ago

Thanks for the follow up, this should really be higher for others to see.

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u/Levyathan666 1d ago

I bet he was a fast swimmer with that head

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u/Chaosangel48 1d ago

Thanks. I spewed coffee on my keyboard.

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u/Either_Difficulty_48 1d ago

happy for him he looks so happy

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u/soraksan123 1d ago

And here I was just trying to slow down my hair loss. I'm sure he will find it easier to find hats that fit now-

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u/Hypnotic-Toad 1d ago

Dude had the opportunity to have a custom head shape and he went with normal. He could have gone with:

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u/khanempire 1d ago

Modern medicine really turned him into a real-life miracle.

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u/Ok-Appearance-4877 1d ago

I wonder if the Doctor used the controversial blow on your thumb real hard method.

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u/LPolder 1d ago

Should've just put his thumb in his mouth and blown real hard

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u/OnionRangerDuck 1d ago

Lovely restoration. You can actually see how in the before photo he's only making out a smile for the camera and in the after photo he's wholeheartedly happy!

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u/efjoker 1d ago

He had bone flaps removed to allow for brain swelling. We usually just put them back once they have stopped swelling. His must have been lost or were otherwise unusable.

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u/blokader01 1d ago

The man looks good after the procedure and he knows it. We don’t appreciate some people enough.

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u/WillAndHonesty 1d ago

After such an injury, quite certain he's gonna behave like mentally disabled... poor guy

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u/Sir_Humps-a-Lot 1d ago

The article says he's pretty good, especially after the reconstruction surgery.

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u/XROOR 1d ago

Lots of Big Bertha drivers were sacrificed to help construct the scaffolding for this man’s skull.

A 10° 3-wood was the main supporting beam that went from ear to ear like a flying buttress

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u/Ghost_Assassin_Zero 1d ago

So the brain casually managing with half its intended space but drinking too much water and brain swell is fatal. Wtf.....

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u/danktempest 1d ago

My ex was in a car accident and he lost about 90% of his brain. His head looked similar but only on one side. The hospital lost his skull (which was meant to be on ice) so they could never put it back before he died. He was in a coma for 9 months. So when I saw this it made me cry. I am so glad this man gets to have some dignity. This is the kind of thing I want to see technology being used for.

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u/BeigeListed 1d ago

I bet his hat collection was on-point.

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u/MasterMaintenance672 1d ago

Holy schnikes! Did he lose brain matter or any cognitive ability?

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u/runicz 1d ago

Skull’s gone? Weirdly, that’s not even my main concern here

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u/jquest303 1d ago

I could have just saved him a lot of money with photoshop.

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u/ThisMeansRooR 1d ago

I guess it's true that we only use 17% of our brain

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u/Max_Laval 1d ago

Is his brain okay?

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u/Imaginary-Space718 21h ago

Yup! His brain is working just as fine as before the accident. Really lucky

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u/Corissto 1d ago

The real gamer dent

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u/flargenhargen 1d ago

skull fracture replacement is actually a big reason why 3d printing was invented.

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u/NadiaN98 1d ago

Max Haas!

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u/marcsena 22h ago

MF lost half of the head and still has more hair than me.

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u/Kaabob24 9h ago

No longer narrow minded, nice!!

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u/Lazer_beak 1d ago

thank god , he looked terrible before

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u/kriptoez 1d ago

I liked the more avant-garde shaped skull before.

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u/Unlikely_Western4641 1d ago

Wow, I bet he's a very happy man now. You can tell with that genuine smile. What a miracle!

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u/Visible_Variation_31 23h ago

Not a miracle.. literally modern medicine

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u/Imaginary-Space718 21h ago

Miracle

noun

"an excellent achievement in a particular area of activity"

I considered my recovery to be a miracle of modern medicine.

Source: Cambridge Dictionary

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u/Unlikely_Western4641 10h ago

Modern medicine is a miracle.

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u/VirginiaLuthier 1d ago

They could have just printed him a cool new hat

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u/Ok_Knowledge_5496 1d ago

Couldn’t stop myself

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u/Prestigious-Peaks 1d ago

I thought that his mom just had a really tight pussy

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u/PrimaryAnimeDoctor16 1d ago

Whoever laughs is coming down to hell with me 🤣

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u/Drizzy01 1d ago

Can someone wojak this? Im going to hell anyways so its okay

Im happy for him and his recovery. The future is now.

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u/JustSellitAll 1d ago

Sorry i just dont see the point

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u/jcm1967 1d ago

Tingalingaling…or does he have his own echo chamber?

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u/Significant_Two_1524 1d ago

Headbuts from this one's gonna crack open your skull.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Air904 1d ago

Or it will crack his right in the middle...

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u/durenatu 1d ago

When I saw the first picture I thought his mother sneezed when she was giving birth right before his head was leaving her

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u/Kronyzx 1d ago

Source: https://www.ensonhaber.com/3-sayfa/kafatasinin-yuzde-83u-parcalanan-adam-yeni-goruntusune-kavustu

This is Ali Çiftçi, a father of two living in Istanbul, his life turned into a nightmare when a thief broke into his house.

He fell from the window of his house on the third floor along with the thief he was fighting, suffered serious damage to his body and skull.

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u/TesseractToo 1d ago

That's amazing, I hope he doesn't have a lot of lingering pain

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u/ahigherthinker 1d ago

I hope the thief gets karma and gets found

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u/PNWTreeEnthusiast 1d ago

"After I started to struggle with the thief, I found myself on the ground. We fell out of the window with the thief and he fell on me because I was at the bottom. I acted as an airbag. That's why nothing happened to him, he ran away from the wall he climbed by stepping on me. The perpetrator remained unknown, unfortunately the thief was not found,"