Medical 3D Printing & BioprintingDr Varun Tyagi is a medical doctor who practices in India and writes about remarkable and historical landmarks throughout the medical world. Dr Varun believes that 3D printing can help democratize medical care, making medical devices affordable and available to everyone on the planet.
Magic Arms has now delivered more than 100 3D printed orthotic devices for children with 150 more on the waiting list out of 500,000 kids who might benefit.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery expert Dr Mohd Nazimi Abd Jabar came up with a 3D-printed facial implant to treat a patient who was involved in a severe car accident that left her with facial defects.
Assisted by the use of 3D Printed models, Philadelphia doctors have transplanted donor hands and forearms onto an 8-year-old boy whose own hands were amputated when he was a toddler.
3D sculptor, Gilles Azzaro, created a 3D print of a newborn's first cry. The print took 10 hours to make and was created as a keepsake.
Lehigh University's Mountaintop Summer Program brought together students to work on the development of "Spiderhand" exoskeleton devices to assist with physical rehabilitation.
Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul is now building “CranioCaps” using Stratysys 3D printers. Gillette reports that it treats around 1,100 children with Flat Head Syndrome annually, and this reduces the production time from one week to five hours.
Dr. Shen Tongya, professor of Neurosurgery at Yonsei University in South Korea, successfully completed a 3D printed pelvic implantation for a teenage girl suffering from one of the most common types of bone cancer.
Thanks to University of Central Florida aerospace engineering student Albert Manero, Alex has just become the recipient of the world's first ever 3D-printed myoelectric prosthetic arm.
The National Pingtung University of Science and Veterinary Medicine Department (NPUST) is developing the first domestic animal rehabilitation center which relies on 3D printing.
HEALX is using 3D scanning and printing for customized manufactured wrist braces for immobilizing musculoskeletal injuries.
Anne Garcia, a parent of an infant heart patient, began OpHeart as a way to advance the idea of cheap 3D printed heart models for infants to help parents better advocate for their children.
The key to developing more medical applications is precision in printing fine microstructures found in nature. Qingnan Zhou of NYU published a detailed analysis in his latest research, called ‘A Study in Fabricating Microstructures (Part 1).’
Surgeons at Fujian Medical University’s affiliated hospital were aided by an custom model of a patient’s spine, as they performed surgery to address the narrowing of his spinal canal, a condition known as spinal stenosis.
The Osteo3d Archives is a one of its kind repository of 3d printable medical models where one can view, study and download 3d printable files that can be printed on a 3d printer.
Rokit, a South Korean 3D printer manufacturer announced a $3 million government grant for the development of bioprinting technology.
New fast dissolving tablets, known as ZipDoses, were developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals who modified 3D printing technology technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that was designed to create fast melting products.
In a study published Wednesday in Nature, researchers present a new technique for building these complex structures on the smallest possible scale. One day, these tiny, intricate objects could be used to deliver drug therapies, along with other applications not even dreamed up yet.
Engineers in Germany have built a biologically inspired artificial hand with muscles made from bundles of 'smart' wires. An electric charge is all that's needed to make these wires tense or relax, meaning the hand can operate without the bulky and cumbersome electronics that often make artificial prosthetic hands impractical.
4WEB Medical, a leading global provider of 3D printed orthopedic implants, announced its first Australian patient specific implant surgery.
Phillips Imaging illustrated the educational and patient-communications value of 3D Printing of MRI scans at a trade show in Toronto.
The holy grail of printing high-resolution ceramic body parts may still be a ways off, but WASP, an Italian company, has developed an extruder which can be used to print liquid porcelain models at higher resolutions than ever-before possible.
3D Print reports that a Reddit Group has been working on a 3d printed arm prosthesis that can be used for weightlifting.
Australian physicians are taking advantage of 3D printing to create an exact replica of the patient's cardiac anatomy when planning left atrial appendage (LAA) closure procedures with the Watchman (Boston Scientific) device.
Taking CT and X-ray data, Longgang Gong, the ENT specialist at Xi’an Red Cross Hospital, created a 3D printed model of the patient's disheveled mandible in order to get a more realistic view of the defects that needed correcting.
Jonathan Yap and Gianni Renda or Swinburne University of Technology from Australia presented a paper entitlted "Low-cost 3D-printable Prosthetic Foot" at the Design4Health conference.
3DPrint reported, "Upon seeing Han Han, the medical team at the Hunan Province Brain Hospital elected to perform an unheard of life-saving surgery which they called (translated from chinese) “whole brain shrinking plastic surgery”.
In Guangdong, China, at the Southern Medical University, Dean Professor Huang Wenhua. Wenhua and his students are using high-precision 3D printers to print out pure bone structures, made up of bone powder and a type of “bio-glue”.
To better optimize surgical interventions for the treatment of myelomeningocele, the Colorado Fetal Care Center team is utilizing 3-D imaging and 3-D printing to create models for the purpose of aiding in patch design.
Joimax announced that they have received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to market their Endoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion (EndoLIF® On-Cage implant) in the U.S.
The Victoria Hand Project (VHP) designs and develops low-cost, highly functional, easily manufactured, upper-limb, 3D printed prostheses (3D-PP). We use advanced, yet cost effective tools such as 3D printing and 3D laser scanning, to create our devices.
Chinese company, MedPrin, has created a 3D printed dura replacement material that is used for brain surgery to replace the dura layer just beneath the bone after surgery. Redura is very similar to dura, and eventually dissolves as the body replaces it with actual dura.
Snugs offers a more personalised approach for fitting ear buds, measuring the unique curves of your ear canals to tailor bespoke buds that promise the best in noise isolation and comfort.
Professor Guo Wei from the Peking University People’s Hospital is now the first to use 3D printing technology to create a sacral prosthesis that would in effect take the place of a patient's removed sacrum.
BASF and Poietis, the first company in the world for 3D laser-assisted bioprinting, have signed an agreement on research and development in cosmetics. Based on the combined expertise of both companies in tissue engineering and bioprinting, the agreement aims to apply the bioprinting technology of Poietis to improve BASF’s skin equivalent model Mimeskin™.
Professor Wang Xiaoping from the Tang Du Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University is the first doctor to remove a patient's sternum and replace it with an “exact” replica made of 3D printed titanium.
A collaborative University of California study demonstrated the use of Smartphones paired with a 3D printed device that can incorporate Elisa plates allowing smartphones to detect viruses such as HIV and West Nile in the field.
According to an interview in 3DPrint, Peter Graven, a science teacher for 8th graders in Wisconsin, worked with his class to create a spiderman prosthetic hand for a local 5-year old.
This project from Martin Vincent Bloedorn is a 3D printed prosthetic hand which in many ways functions just like a human hand, but it uses actuated motors with a linkage that drives each finger via a threaded rod.
The ACO Hip Guide System, a platform of 3D surgical planning software and patient-specific surgical guides for hip surgery from Materialise, will now be joined by Consensus Orthopedics following their adoption of a version for knee surgeries earlier this year.
Dr. Jing Yang says the work on 3D printing human tissues for regenerative medical applications uses living cells and biomaterials placed at precise locations to mimic the natural organization of cells.