Source: BioValley

Headquartered at the University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers have developed a new low-cost manufacturing for the severely damaged skull bone replacement implants approach. Cooperation with Sydney Neurosurgery Group has developed a new 3D printing technology to connect doctors with patients matched implant within a few days, rather than the past few weeks of time-consuming.

Dr. Philip - Laboratory and project director, said severe head trauma can cause indeed, the current course of treatment requires significant skull surgeon stitched stretch and excess skin around the wound, and waiting to generate a suitable implant. And their method of application quickly create templates that makes creating and patient match, safe, sterile cranial implant possible. Just need to get the patient's head scan images using polymer-based "cement" to manufacture, can be completed within a few days.

The cranial implant technology is not only fast stencil faster and cheaper than ever to match the patient's anatomy alternative production methods. Team members expressed their implants existing 3D printing is still relatively weak, because they may have contaminated, resulting in a higher risk of infection or inflammation. And with this new technology, we can create patient sterile template damaged area and then apply a biocompatible polymer cement in a sterile environment to the patient's specific template to generate their personalized implants thereof. At present this groundbreaking technology has been successfully used for several patients.

Not long ago, a group of scholars from the University of Tokyo has also said publicly that in the study of 3D printing technology to create personalized bone and articular cartilage - the use of artificial protein and calcium, simulate the real composition of the material of bone and cartilage, print out "CT- bone "for inserting broken bones, or implanted where bone loss, acts as a scaffolding to support new bone growth.

3D printing technology has begun to use in the field of clinical research, with the Magic Pen, perhaps in the future doctors can become Marion instead.