![Life-sized, 3D skulls like this one are helping our plastic surgeons provide better patient care and better training for their students.](https://makingofmedicine.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/skull-351x244.jpg)
By Printing Skulls, We’re Improving Lives
Skulls may be a symbol of death, but we're using them to make a better life for some of our youngest patients. Dr. Jonathan Black, one of our plastic surgeons, is using life-sized, 3D-printed skulls to prepare for surgery on tiny babies born with skull deformities. His youngest patient was…