3d printed implants
Researchers Discuss Health Hazards of 3D Printed Implants & Biomaterials
As 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and bioprinting have offered substantial new avenues for innovation in the medical field and so many other industries, there are bound to be some downsides….
TU Delft Researchers Discuss Microstructural Optimization for 3D Printing Trabecular Bone
Trabecular bone, also known as spongy or cancellous bone, is one of two types of bone found in the human body. It is found at the end of long bones,…
Additive Orthopaedics Receives FDA Clearance for 3D Printed Locking Lattice Plates
Additive Orthopaedics, LLC, headquartered in Little Silver, New Jersey continues to integrate biologics into their processes for patient-specific products for the foot and ankle. Their most recent advancement, delving further…
Aries-L Patient Specific 3D Printed Spinal Device Implanted for the First Time
On Tuesday, January 8th, Dr. Samuel Joseph, Jr. and Dr. Andrew Moulton of Joseph Spine became the first in the world to implant the 3D printed titanium Aries-L interbody fusion device from…
3D Printing Facility for Implants to be Established at Hospital for Special Surgery
3D printed implants have done wonders for many people with orthopedic conditions. In the past, “one size fits all” type implants often caused complications that required patients to have revision…
10 Ways 3D Printing Changed Medicine in 2018
The stream of 3D printing news coming from the medical world is almost constant. From 3D printed implants to complex medical models to actual human tissue, there are so many…
Patient Receives a 3D Printed Rib for the First Time in Bulgaria
35-year-old Ivaylo Josifov was an active, healthy individual who thought he only had a case of tonsillitis when he went to the doctor recently. A chest X-ray, however, showed that…
Fraunhofer Develops New Plasma Jet Technique for 3D Printing Customized Bone Implants
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST have developed a technique that involves 3D printing bone implants that are precisely fitting, stable and variable in dimensions….
3D Printed Bone Scaffolds Could Heal Devastating Injuries
Dr. John A. Svizek, a scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the United States Department of Defense…
3D Printed Dental Implant Shows Promise Over Conventional Counterparts
Dr. Les Kalman at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has developed and patented a dental implant abutment system, but his research was stalled due to inconsistencies and poor…
CITD Uses 3D Printing to Improve Success Rates of Scoliosis Surgery
Scoliosis is a disease with varying degrees of severity. Sometimes it doesn’t need to be treated at all, while sometimes a brace is required and sometimes it’s serious enough to…
Dog Recovering After Groundbreaking Surgery to Implant 3D Printed Skull Cap
Patches is a nine-year-old dachshund who, for years, had a small and apparently harmless bump on her head. Recently, however, that bump began growing until it became the size of…
Harvard Fellowship Brings Professor and Student Together to Work on 3D Printed Artificial Bone Implants
Growing up in Jordan, University of Sydney biomedical engineering professor Hala Zreiqat, a 2016-2017 Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, originally wanted to be an interior designer, but…
3D Printed Ceramic Implants Have the Potential to Restore Missing Bone
Patients with missing bone due to injury or disease have a couple of different options for bone grafts to replace it – autografts, which come from the patient’s own body,…
Natural Plant-Derived Resins Used to Make Antibacterial 3D Printing Filament
Hospital-acquired infections are a growing problem everywhere. The CDC calls them a “major, yet preventable threat to patient safety,” and the key to preventing them lies in keeping bacteria from…
The Impact of 3D Printing on the Medical Device Industry
In January of 2017, Dr. Julielynn Wong, founder of 3D4MD, used Made In Space‘s Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) aboard the International Space Station to 3D print a finger splint for the…
Patient-Specific 3D Printing with BioArchitects
Four years ago, medical 3D printing was something that many people still didn’t know much about. It was beginning to develop through applications such as 3D printed anatomical models and…
Patient-Specific 3D Printed Spinal Solutions by Anatomics
Australian medical device company Anatomics has a very prolific 3D printing portfolio in the healthcare industry, from assisting with a 3D printed heel bone to 3D printing the first titanium sternum…
Patients Experiencing Better Recovery with 3D Printed Spinal Implants
The spine is one of the most important bones in the human body. If something goes wrong with the spine, it affects the entire body – and there are many…
Researchers Test 3D Printed Lattice Structures as Implants to Facilitate Bone Growth
The advances being made in bioprinting and tissue engineering mean that even the most severe injuries have a chance at being repaired. Loss of bone due to injury or disease…
What Medical Device Regulation Might Mean for 3D Printed Patient-Specific Implants
You would be hard pressed to find a sane member of society who would advocate for a removal of all oversight in the field of medicine. However, that doesn’t mean…
Centinel Spine Receives FDA Approval for 3D Printed Spinal Implants
This year, Centinel Spine celebrates its 10th anniversary, but the company’s work has been going on for much longer than a decade. Centinel was formed from the merger-acquisition of two…
Zimmer Biomet’s First 3D Printed Spinal Implants Receive FDA Clearance
It’s not easy to get a new medical treatment or device to the market – and it shouldn’t be, as these treatments are affecting human lives and need to be…
Researchers at New R&D Center Will Use 3D Printing to Manufacture Early Prevention Implants
3D printed implants have been used in all kinds of surgeries, from dental, facial, and spinal to the chest, ears, and hips. But the thing about implants, whether they’re 3D…
