One company in Bavaria is helping women who have had breast surgery through the customization possibilities offered by 3D printing. Lingerie company Anita has employed their German RepRap X400 to streamline the making of breast prostheses. 3D printing has saved about 50% of their cost to make these specialized products. Continue reading “3D Printing Better Breast Prostheses”
Engineers have developed a technique similar to inkjet printing that hey used to fabricate a new glucose sensor for the management of diabetes. The researchers claim the new system is more precise and efficient, and less costly, than current manufacturing methods and could lead to an artificial pancreas with a single point of bodily entry. Continue reading “Using Additive Manufacturing To Print Glucose Sensors To Manage Diabetes”
Lately 3D printing and the dental industry go together like peanut butter and jelly—and with strides being made one after another for 3D printing technology and materials in areas like dentures, different orthodontics, surgical procedures, and implants, you can be assured with innovations for the dental field, Continue reading “E-Appliance: EnvisionTEC Announces Release of New 3D Printing Material for Orthodontics”
Worrell Design Inc. is rolling out new means to reduce those “liabilities” and extend those “licenses” — patient by patient. Worrell is a family-owned and operated business and has established itself as perhaps the most prominent industrial design firm working in the healthcare sector. Continue reading “Health By (3DP) Design: Worrell Helps Span The Gap Between Patient-Generic & Patient-Specific”
Prosthetic hands are great. Prosthetic Wolverine claws are even better — especially when you’re designing and building them for children in need, as Aaron Brown has done. Continue reading “Man Creates Amazing Superhero Prosthetics With 3D Printer For Kids In Need”
3D Systems today announced its ProJet® 3510 MP 3D printer and proprietary VisiJet® Pearlstone dental material have been verified by 3Shape for prosthodontic dental model production. Prosthodontic dental model printed on 3D Systems’ ProJet 3510 MP with VisiJet Pearlstone material shown with 3D printed wax-ups made on 3D Systems’ ProJet 1200 with VisiJet FTX Green material. Continue reading “3Shape Verifies 3D Systems’ ProJet 3510 3D Printer and VisiJet Pearlstone Dental Material”
We all are aware that 3D printing has been helping advance several different types of surgeries. It’s doing this in two ways; first by giving surgeons the option of a variety of new types of 3D printed implants, and second by allowing surgeons to print replica organs for a better understanding of the procedures that they are about to initiate. Continue reading “First Ever Opposite Lung, Living Donor Lung Transplant Takes Place Thanks to 3D Printing”
Using a 3D scanner to map a patient’s mouth and 3D printing, researchers are successfully developing customised mouthpieces to help people with sleep apnoea. The device prevents pauses in breath during sleep and also stops snoring. Continue reading “3D-printed mouthpiece to treat sleep apnoea”
Established just this year, startup fashion house and retailer UNYQ is reimagining prosthetics as we know them. According to company co-founder Eythor Bender, UNYQ wants each prosthetic wearer to be able to design their own prosthetics, creating covers that express their individual personality. Continue reading “Company Creates Fashionable 3D Printed Prosthetic Covers”