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The Role of 3D Printing in Medical Applications: A State of the Art

Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2019

Three-dimensional (3D) printing refers to a number of manufacturing technologies that generate a physical model from digital information. Medical 3D printing was once an ambitious pipe dream. However, time and investment made it real. Nowadays, the 3D printing technology represents a big opportunity to help pharmaceutical and medical companies to create more specific drugs, enabling a rapid production of medical implants, and changing the way that doctors and surgeons plan procedures. Patient-specific 3D-printed anatomical models are becoming increasingly useful tools in today’s practice of precision medicine and for personalized treatments. In the future, 3D-printed implantable organs will probably be available, reducing the waiting lists and increasing the number of lives saved. Additive manufacturing for healthcare is still very much a work in progress, but it is already applied in many different ways in medical field that, already reeling under immense pressure with regards to o...

Medical 3D printing – the future is here

2019

Introduction: Continuous advances in polymer development and thriving 3D printing methods enable us to reproduce components with exceptional print precision and ensure material biocompatibility under sterile conditions. All this comes down to the fact that the resulting prints better fulfill their roles in the world of medicine and enable patients to recover faster. This precision translates into the main advantage of 3D printing, i.e. personalisation of models with perfectly reproduced structures of a given patient based on CT or MRI tests. At the same time, these prints can be used for didactic purposes by medical students from the very beginning of their professional career, which in the future will make it much easier to perform difficult and complicated operations. Aim of the study: Presentation of the application and positive aspects of 3D printing in medicine. 939 Summary: 3D printing is a permanent feature on the pages of modern medicine. Thanks to it we get to know the personalized morphology of given structures, we more accurately prepare ourselves for the procedure and more often prevent probable complications, and our medical staff receives another dose of knowledge, which they translate into the profession. Conclusions: Training on perfectly reproduced copies printed in 3D can certainly attest to the high qualifications of specialist doctors. The use of widely understood 3D printing technique in medicine is slowly becoming commonplace.

Three--Dimensional Printing in Medicine Promise and Challenge

Science Insights, 2016

Three--dimensional (3D) printing is a producing technique by which objects are created by depositing materials such as powders, plastic, liquids, metal, ceramics or even living cells in layers to provide a 3D object. Medical applications for 3D printing are increasing quickly and are expected to revolutionize health care. The current medical applications of 3D printing can be categorized into a number of categories: creating implants, tissue and organ fabrication; prosthetics, and pharmaceutical research concerning drug discovery and anatomical models. The usage of 3D printing in medicine industry will offer several benefits, such as: the personalization and customization of medical product, drugs, and equipment; cost--effectiveness; and enhanced productivity. But, it should be cautioned that despite recent important and exciting medical advances of 3D printing, notable scientific and regulatory challenges stay and the most transformative applica--tions for this technology, like organ printing, can take time to evolve.■

Medical Applications of 3D Printing

2018

Three-dimensional printing (3DP) is an entirely novel method of manufacture with its applications only limited by the imagination. The mainstay of 3DP utilisation practically to date has been in the field of engineering, largely for the purpose of generating model prototypes. However, the potential of 3DP has increasingly been recognised in areas of commercial manufacture in medicine due to its capacity to produce materials and devices that can equal, if not surpass, the benefits of traditional consumer goods. The opportunities for future uses are innumerable ranging from tissue engineering, the on-demand fabrication of medical devices and advanced applications in other fields with the same pressing need for medical personalisation. The 3D printing arena is ultimately exciting and endless in opportunities with the FDA encouraging the development of science and risk based approaches. This chapter will discuss the existing and future medical applications of 3DP and its potential to re...

Applications of 3D printing in healthcare

Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new field of bioprinting, that is printing with cells, will also be briefly discussed.

Biomedical Applications of 3-D Printing

This paper discusses the current and future prospects of 3-D printing technology in the field of medical science encompassing biomedical engineering for improved human health care. It presents before the reader, an overview on the evolution of the 3D printing technology and its increased usage in the field of biomedical engineering and pharmaceutics. It is expected that it is going to change the future of manufacturing industries and technology.

Medical 3D Printing: Techniques, Advances, Applications, Challenges, and Regulatory Implications

Medical 3D Printing: Techniques, Advances, Applications, Challenges, and Regulatory Implications, 2024

3D printing is transforming the medical field. This publication covers its essence, applications, regulations, and challenges. We discuss its origins, advantages, patient-specific products, and regulatory insights. We also explore biological material printing, organ transplantation, and drug research. This technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but further research and collaboration are needed.

A Review on 3D printing Technology Application in Healthcare

IJRnDESM, 2019

3D printing for the future of medicine

Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine, 2020

3D printing is an additive manufacturing method that involves successive deposition of layers of materials to create a construct from a digital model. 3D-printing technologies have widespread applications in medicine and are increasingly used for solving a wide variety of medical problems. In this review, we summarize existing 3D-printing technologies and explore recent advances in the development and characterization of bioinks and biomaterial inks. We will then explain characterization methods for determining the rheological and mechanical properties of printing inks and 3D-printed constructs using invasive and noninvasive methods. Lastly, four core uses in recent innovations in medicine, including tissue and organoid engineering, disease modeling, drug delivery, biosensing, patient-specific implants and challenges along with future prospects will be discussed.

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