surgical guides
Ricoh Wants to Make Surgery Easier with Custom 3D-Printed Guides for U.S. Surgeons
Orthopedic and maxillofacial surgeons may soon have access to surgical tools designed specifically for each patient. Thanks to a new partnership between Ricoh 3D for Healthcare and Insight Surgery, custom…
1 Million Dental Parts 3D Printed by Carbon and Keystone
Carbon and Keystone Industries just hit a milestone with the successful production of one million dental parts, highlighting the steady progress in 3D printing for dental manufacturing. In just 314,000…
Yale’s First In-House “3D” Surgical Case: A Leap in Medicine
Surgeons at Yale School of Medicine pioneered the first fully in-house 3D surgical procedure to fix a misaligned bone near the wrist. Dr. Lisa Lattanza, Chair and Ensign Professor of…
Revolutionizing Dental Care: The Imperative Integration of Dental Lab Technicians into Clinical Practice
3D printing is omnipresent in dental laboratories globally. In this vastly digital world, the production of dental prostheses and appliances has undergone a transformation driven 100% by digital processes. Instead…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: October 22, 2023
There’s plenty to do in the 3D printing industry this week! We’ll tell you about events happening all over the world, and webinars about everything from pellet 3D printing for…
Glidewell Launches 3D Printed Surgical Guides for Dental Procedures
Dental 3D printing is one of the unsung heroes of our industry, with tens of millions of crowns and bridges now made with additive manufacturing (AM). 3D printers are making…
3D Systems Introduces 3D Printed Polymer-Metal Guides for MF Surgeries
3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) has long been breaking ground in the personalized medicine space with its Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP), which can help reduce the amount of time that patients…
Will Medical 3D Printing Be Local or International? Oceanz Launches Service for Dutch Hospitals
3D printing service bureau Oceanz has launched a 3D print service specifically for Dutch hospitals. This service will offer medical models, specifically those used for preoperative planning. But the company…
Dental 3D Software Gets a Boost Thanks to a New Collaboration
PreXion, a leader in high-quality 3D cone beam imaging systems for dentistry, and turnkey guided surgery provider 3D Diagnostix have announced a collaboration to integrate 3D Diagnostix services with the…
3D Printed Medical Models May Assist in Better Monitoring of Ventricular Devices & Blood Flow
In ‘Innovative Modeling Techniques and 3D Printing in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Bridge from Bench to Clinical Practice,’ US researchers examine new techniques for better monitoring of…
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…
Using Patient-Specific 3D Printed Surgical Guides for Total Knee Replacement
While surgery has always, ultimately, been about the patient, it hasn’t always been patient-centered. Historically, patients have not had an easy time of understanding exactly what their surgery entails and…
3D Printed Implants Help Reconstruct Man’s Face in Pioneering Surgery
When Carlos Askew was born to a drug-addicted mother, he was immediately removed from her care and placed in the custody of the state. In addition to the disadvantageous start…
Israeli Surgeons Use 3D Printed Surgical Guide to Correct Madelung’s Deformity
The flexibility, ease of use, cost efficiency, and precision of 3D printing has turned it into a power player in the medical world. Every day we read new stories about…
Renishaw Works With University Hospital of Wales to 3D Print Guides & Mandibular Implant for Cancer Patient
Founded in 1973, Renishaw is headquartered in the UK with offices around the world. Although the engineering and scientific technology firm specializes in metrology, they have been the power behind…
Bioprinting in Focus: Interview with José Baena, Founder and CEO of REGEMAT 3D and BRECA Healthcare
REGEMAT 3D, a pioneer in the development of 3D bioprinting technologies, and BRECA Healthcare have been making headlines recently, so to learn more we turned to their founder José Baena…
