Medical & Dental

More and more people are suffering from intestinal infections and urinary system problems, including but not limited to bladder cancer, colon cancer and Crohn’s disease. These kind of diseases are also ones for which people have to undergo an ostomy,…

Medical applications in 3D printing are vast and growing larger by the day. One that is increasingly important, but perhaps less discussed, centers on microfluidics. Microfluidic devices (microfluidic chips) have emerged over the past 30 years and have been rapidly…

3D printing has been applied to reconstructive surgery to create a nose graft for a patient who underwent intense cancer treatment. This amazing feat happened occured at IUCT Oncopole (University Cancer Institute of Toulouse), a cancer care, research, and training…

It is more than obvious that medicine has benefited particularly from additive manufacturing within the last few years. In addition to the production of facial masks, prostheses, orthoses or even educational material, there has also been increasing investment in the…

With 1 in 3 American adults living with doctor-diagnosed arthritis, a painful and difficult-to-treat condition, medical advances are essential for improving their quality of life. The Fraunhofer Institute, a German research organization with 76 bases across the country, has worked…

It is becoming increasingly evident that additive manufacturing has a pivotal role to play within the medical sector. This is largely due to the ability to create and customize solutions tailored to each individual. From bioprinting projects for tissue development…

According to the World Health Organization, 15 million babies are born prematurely each year. A newborn is considered premature when it is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. This abnormality can cause health complications for the baby, especially in terms…

One of the fields where 3D printing is gaining great popularity is dentistry. 3D printing in the dental sector is a tool that allows the creation of parts adapted to the needs and morphology of each patient. Whether it is…

A researcher at the University of Leeds has been awarded a grant of £247,552 (approximately $290,000) for research on the use of 3D printing for dentures. Dr Andrew Keeling has been leading the study since 2018 and aims to discover…

Mosquitoes are transmitters of many serious diseases including malaria and dengue fever and as such are responsible for about one million deaths per year according to the WHO (World Health Organization). Not to mention how annoying the bites caused by…

Bioprinting is one of the most exciting applications for the 3D printing in the medical sector. Enabling the possibility to create organs or more, it truly represents the peak of human innovation. In the latest news, after receiving SMART Cymru…

It is no secret that 3D printing has been making great waves in recent years in the medical sector. One arena in which the technologies have been especially useful is for making prostheses as it allows for lighter, more customized…