Medical & Dental

3D printing is revolutionizing the medical industry, powering a broad range of applications from implants and surgical guides to patient-specific devices. Physicians and medical students alike are leveraging this technology to provide more targeted, individualized care. Key additive manufacturing methods—FDM,…

3D printing has transformed manufacturing in a variety of industries, enabling everything from the production of prototypes to the creation of complex biomedical structures. Among current technologies, digital light processing (DLP) has become especially popular for its speed and accuracy.…

3D printing is becoming increasingly important in medicine and has now also taken on an important role in ophthalmology. One example is 3D-printed glasses, which can be perfectly adapted to the needs and wishes of patients. But it’s not just…

3D printing continues to transform the medical sector, and its influence now extends to the ophthalmology sector, particularly in the manufacturing of lenses. This is the case of startup Lensy Medical, which manufactures contact lenses using 3D technologies. Its approach…

Advances in 3D printing for medicine are booming, and researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have just successfully designed a 3D-printed femur model. This project could provide doctors with a new tool to better prepare bone reconstruction surgeries…

When someone has sleep apnoea, their breathing stops repeatedly during sleep. Physiologically speaking, the front wall of the pharynx falls onto the back wall and closes the airways. Then, the body reacts to this emergency with an adrenaline rush, causing…

On October 17th, Ricoh announced its partnership with Insight Surgery to provide patient-specific surgical guides for orthopedic and maxillofacial surgeries. These innovative, 3D printed surgical guides will help surgeons with precision by translating a bespoke virtual surgical plan directly onto…

One of the sectors where we have seen the most significant growth in use of additive manufacturing is undoubtedly medical. Indeed, it has gotten so popular that we have even seen a rise in the use of 3D printing in…

Being a woman is the biggest risk factor for developing breast cancer. Even though men are not immune to this type of cancer and around 1% are diagnosed with it every year, breast cancer was the most common cancer in…

3D printed food is nothing new. Several companies, like Steakholder Foods and Forma Foods, have 3D printed meat and fish alternatives. Others have 3D printed chocolate and reconstituted fruits and vegetables. An international team of researchers at the University of…

The term for discoveries made by chance is “serendipity”. Some of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs include radioactivity, X-rays and the discovery of penicillin. Recently, this same serendipity led to a new breakthrough in additive manufacturing. Two researchers from the…

3D bioprinting is revolutionizing the medical field, offering groundbreaking solutions for everything from tissue engineering to personalized treatments. Thanks to 3D printing-like techniques, cells and biomaterials can be combined and deposited layer by layer to create biomedical parts that have…