Doctors separate babies

Twin girls are born in Israel in August 2020. Their heads are connected. The girls cannot see each other. A team of doctors plan a special surgery. They will separate the girls. It is the first such surgery in Israel. They plan it for one year.

They use 3D and virtual reality models. They put special bags in the girls´ heads. The bags make their skin grow.

The surgery takes 12 hours. Doctors build the bones for the girls´ heads. They use the new skin. The surgery is successful. The girls look at each other for the first time. They will live normal lives.

In August 2020, twin girls were born in Israel. They never saw each other because they were joined at the head. Last week, they could look at each other for the first time.

A team of experts from Israel and other countries spent a year planning a surgery which would separate the girls. It was a complicated surgery, and the team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan it. Doctors performed this surgery only twenty times in the world, and it was the first time that they did it in Israel.

Months before the surgery, doctors put silicone bags into the girls´ heads which lengthened their skin. After the doctors reconstructed the skulls, they used the new skin to close the heads. The surgery took 12 hours, and it was successful. The girls will live normal lives.

One-year-old twin girls saw each other for the first time following a complex surgery to separate them at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel.

Conjoined at the head, the twins were separated in a 12-hour procedure, involving dozens of experts from Israel and abroad, who´d spent a year planning the surgery. The team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan the procedure that was the first of its kind in Israel. Months before the surgery, doctors inserted inflatable silicone bags into the girls’ heads and periodically expanded them to stretch the skin. The new skin was then used to closed the girls´ heads after the skulls were reconstructed.

Such an operation had only been conducted twenty times worldwide, and to the team´s great joy, everything went as they´d hoped. The girls are expected to lead completely normal lives.

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