Using technology to give young patients a second chance at life

Prof Majeed Rana, MD, DMD

Prof Majeed Rana, a native of Bad Homburg, Germany, is vice director of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Department of Oral and Maxillofacial and Plastic Facial Surgery. Throughout his 14-year career in craniomaxillofacial (CMF) surgery, he has specialized in computer-assisted surgery (CAS), bringing a new level of predictability, quality control and excellence to the complex cases he treats.

Rana earned his medical degree in 2006 from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, his specialty in emergency medicine in 2007, and—in 2009—
his doctor of dental medicine degree from RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and his implantology specialty. He has an AO CMF member since 2008 and has chaired the AO CMF Course—Advances in Medical 3-D Planning and 3-D Printing.
Rana currently is involved in clinical study funded by the German government for €2.5 million and aimed at facilitating a child-friendly craniosynostoses treatment using molybdenum as the base material for open cranial bone remodelling. This completely new material concept, due to the high mechanical strength of molybdenum and its resorbability, significantly reduces risk to the patient and represents a treatment that can be seamlessly integrated into existing treatment processes and clinic workflows.