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- Anna Aimar
- Aid4Med S.r.l., Udine 33100, Italy
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- Augusto Palermo
- Head 3 Orthopaedic Department, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS Capitanio Hospital, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Bernardo Innocenti
- BEAMS Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium
説明
<jats:p>Three-dimensional (3D) printing refers to a number of manufacturing technologies that generate a physical model from digital information. Medical 3D printing was once an ambitious pipe dream. However, time and investment made it real. Nowadays, the 3D printing technology represents a big opportunity to help pharmaceutical and medical companies to create more specific drugs, enabling a rapid production of medical implants, and changing the way that doctors and surgeons plan procedures. Patient-specific 3D-printed anatomical models are becoming increasingly useful tools in today’s practice of precision medicine and for personalized treatments. In the future, 3D-printed implantable organs will probably be available, reducing the waiting lists and increasing the number of lives saved. Additive manufacturing for healthcare is still very much a work in progress, but it is already applied in many different ways in medical field that, already reeling under immense pressure with regards to optimal performance and reduced costs, will stand to gain unprecedented benefits from this good-as-gold technology. The goal of this analysis is to demonstrate by a deep research of the 3D-printing applications in medical field the usefulness and drawbacks and how powerful technology it is.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Journal of Healthcare Engineering
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Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2019 1-10, 2019-03-21
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