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Title: | Custom surgical implants using additive manufacturing | Authors: | POUKENS, Jules Laeven, Paul Beerens, Maikel Koper, David Lethaus, Bernd Kessler, Peter Vander Sloten, Jos LAMBRICHTS, Ivo |
Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | Comcord -Duesseldorf | Source: | Digital Dental News, 4(1). p. 72-75 | Abstract: | CAD/CAM and Additive Manufacturing (AM) are getting more attention in the medical sector, especially in cranio-maxillofacial surgery where defects of the face (e.g., absence of a nose, ear, or eye) have a very big psycho-social impact. Radiological, optical, and laser scans of the patient are converted into a virtual three-dimensional patient with subsequent virtual design of the medical device. AM methods enable the production of custom implants made in a solid or resorbable material, or even in multiple materials. The introduction of AM and related technologies in medicine is a breakthrough in treatment modalities for very complex patient cases that were before untreatable. What’s more, they are reducing operating time and patient discomfort. This progress is serving as a “stepping stone” to the 3D printing of organs in the future. Use of additive manufacturing is demonstrated by showing a case where a patient underwent reconstruction of a large skull defect. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/11725 | ISSN: | 1863-7957 | Category: | A3 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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