For those that suffer from server epilepsy means drilling through the skull deep into the brain to destroy the small area where the seisures originates, its dangerous and has a long period recovery time. A team of Vanderbilt engineers figured out a way to go through your cheek and enters the brain from underneath which avoids having to drill through the skull and is an easier target.


    They designed the system so it could be made by 3-D printing so it wouldn't be so costly. The surgery involves a needle that is curved so that it don't have to hit the skull and it limits it from being so dangerous and they wont have as long of a recovery time.