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3D Printing and the Separation of Conjoined Twins: Doc-to-Doc with Oren Tepper, MD

Last fall, Oren Tepper, MD, was part of a team that separated 13-month-old twin boys born joined at the head, in a procedure lasting 27 hours. Tepper, a craniofacial surgeon, had responsibility for rebuilding the boys' skulls for their new, separate lives. In this video, we discuss the procedure and how the technology used in it will help future patients.