Medical & Dental

Additive manufacturing has a number of applications in medicine, one of them being prostheses. The World Health Organization estimates that 30 million people worldwide need these devices, so manufacturing methods matter a great deal to a significant chunk of the…

Every year, millions of people around the world suffer tissue damage due to disease, trauma or injury. During surgical procedures, medical professionals primarily use stitches to promote tissue healing. However, a failure during surgery can lead to complications and may…

3D printing is now firmly established in the cosmetics industry. Many brands use this technology for a multitude of applications. For example, Cosmogen has turned to metal 3D printing to customize its applicators and imagine geometries that would be impossible…

Human technology has advanced so far in the past few centuries, and it is undeniable that one of the sectors where we have seen the most growth is medical. Considering that nothing is scarier than the prospect of facing serious…

Deglumed is a project that aims to move towards personalized medicine. Through the use of various technologies, including 3D printing, the aim is to create drugs that adapt to the needs of each patient. This initiative could make it easier…

Mosquito bites can lead to devastating diseases. For example, dengue fever, malaria or Zika virus, to name a few. All of these are diseases, some of which are fatal to humans, that can be transmitted through the bite of a…

Stratasys has added to their line of dental materials with the release of TrueDent, a clear, realistic dental resin, Stratasys’ first FDA cleared product. It is designed to be used exclusively with the Stratasys J5 DentaJet 3D printer and GrabCAD…

When it comes to medical issues, very little can be as scary as those affecting the brain. This is especially the case for brain aneurysms. Defined by the Mayo Clinic as a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in…

Bioprinting is a method that makes it possible to manufacture cellular structures from bioinks loaded with stem cells: layer by layer, the biomaterial is deposited to design skin, tissue or even an organ. Imagine a 3D printed heart, ear, lung…

3D printing often proves useful for surgical training and modeling of medical conditions, particularly those which present complex cases and are difficult to train outside of the operating theater. This includes eye surgery; in this case, specifically surgery to rectify…

It seems there is no shortage of new and exciting applications for 3D printing, especially in the medical field. And recently UpNano, a system provider for high-resolution and micro 3D printing, and Fertilis, an IVF specialist based in Australia, have…

Researchers in a multi-university collaboration between the University of Waterloo, Canada, University of Swansea, and University of St Andrews, both UK, have conducted experiments on 3D bioprinted cancer cells over a period of 11 days, to compare to results from…