Medical & Dental

Surgeons at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London have used 3D printing to increase the success rate of complex organ transplants in young children. They have recently completed a complex operation with a 2-year-old boy named Dexter…

SME is an American professional association that recently unveiled their Medical AM3DP 2018 Annual Report, which provides a global overview of the impact of additive manufacturing in the medical sector – highlighting the importance of technological innovation to improve the…

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) launched at the Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) on February 1st 2018. This big UK event marks the opening of the £21m centre, which is to be used to trial and develop innovative…

SmarTech Publishing recently announced its latest report on the 3D printing dental market, including an expected increase in market size to $9.5bn by 2027. SmarTech’s findings explain that the dental industry has grown by over 35% year-on-year in 2016 and…

CARMAT, founded by cardiologist Alain Carpentier, is known for working on the most advanced artificial heart in the world. The company has just announced a partnership with 3D printer manufacturer AddUp. Unveiled on Monday, this collaboration is expected to accelerate…

Surgeons from France’s Amiens-Picardie University have used 3D printing alongside a robot to successfully perform surgery on a boy’s spine. The boy, 6, had been suffering from severe progressive scoliosis coupled with infantile spinal amyotraphy, rendering him unable to even…

Researchers at Massey University have successfully made a new 3D-printer. This printer is special: it can 3D-print new corneas, which can then be used to transplant them into humans. The best part? The printer creates these new corneas from fish scales.…

At the University of Oxford, researchers have discovered a new way to 3D print living tissue with lab-grown cells. While there have been other successes of 3D printing tissue, such as in Sweden, this latest development in England could pave…

Zurich University of Applied Sciences is already well known on the 3D printing scene for their affiliation with Crytosurge as well as for breeding students that have created wonders such as the 6-axis 3D printer. Now, stepping back into the…

Today, there are many players in 3D printing – be they companies or associations – who have embarked on the creation of 3D-printed prostheses. Often associated with a physical disability, they replace a broken or underdeveloped part of our body.…

3D printing has touched a number of different industries, but one that has seen significant innovations over the last couple years has been none other than the medical field. Thanks to its ease of adoption, 3D printing is helping to…

Following a line of 3D printing innovations in medicine this year, such as 3D printed ovaries and skin, the latest medical innovation in 3D printing comes out of the K2M headquarters in Leesburg, Virginia with their announcement of their FDA…