Soldier gets 3D printed bone after head injury

Three months after suffering a critical brain injury due to missile shrapnel, Ret. Capt. Saar Ram was operated on using 3D software that guided surgeons in replacing a shattered natural bone with a synthetic polymer implant to prevent further brain damage.

“I was called up on October 7 to the 53rd battalion of the 188th Brigade of the Armored corps. I arrived at the base in the north in the morning, and after two days we were moved to the envelope area, but it was not until the end of October that we entered the strip along…