Medical & Dental

At the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), a team of researchers, along with doctors from St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, have developed an innovative method for bioprinting medical implants. Instead of designing scaffolds on which cells will multiply,…

A few months ago we introduced you to Expert3D, a postgraduate course aimed at doctors, healthcare professionals, engineers and technicians in the healthcare sector. Offered by the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (SJD) and other European medical centers, and…

Desktop Health, Desktop Metal’s new healthcare business, announced last week that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its proprietary resin designed for use in 3D printed dental prosthetics. Though the 3D printing dental…

It has been clear for a while that 3D printing has a number of benefits for the medical sector. From personalized protheses to bioprinting organs, already AM is being used in medicine in revolutionary ways. However, researchers from the University…

3D Systems has just announced their latest enhancement to their VSP surgical planning portfolio. The all new VSP Hybrid Guides will deliver a breakthrough patient-specific, occlusal-based solution for maxillofacial surgeries. By combining nylon and titanium guides the new enhancement will…

Testing for COVID-19 with a coffee capsule and a pan? This is the original idea of a scientist from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. Hoping to reduce the cost of COVID-19 detection tests currently offered on the market,…

MIT spinout, OPT Industries has used novel additive manufacturing systems to develop intricately designed products, including a novel nasal swabs to be used for Covid-19 testing. Founder, Jifei Ou, previously spent seven years spent researching 3D systems in MIT’s Media…

Additive manufacturing is becoming increasingly popular. This is evident in the widening array of areas in which it is used. In addition to dominant sectors such as the automotive industry or aerospace , 3D printing technologies are now increasingly being used in smaller…

As winter gives way to spring the newly bloomed flowers and warm weather bring with them dust, unperceived by most but an anguish to those suffering from respiratory diseases. For them, this year and last, tainted by Covid-19, has amplified…

Though one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of 3D printers, Prodways offers solutions across the entire 3D printing value chain and for several industries. Earlier this month, the company launched its first automated 3D printing modular system for the dental industry,…

Copper3D continues its research into the development of antiviral materials and devices aimed at meeting the needs of the medical sector. After designing a 3D printed breast pump tip to fight against HIV transmission during breastfeeding, the Chilean-American company has now…

In 2019, the American cosmetic brand Neutrogena announced that it wanted to develop a 3D printed (and therefore personalized) face mask. We are happy to tell you that the project is progressing! Called MaskID, the 3D printed mask is entering…