Application of 3D Printing in Healthcare

3D printing in healthcare:

3D printing in healthcare is a growing subsector. Because of the ability to individualize 3D printing in healthcare, surgeons can perform practice sessions on duplicate copies of patient's organs to improve success rates. On the nanoscale, doctors can perform more precisely targeted drug delivery.

In healthcare, 3D bioprinting is used to create living human cells or tissue for use in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Organovo and EnvisionTEC are the pioneers of this technology. 3D printing is also used to manufacture precision and personalised pharmaceuticals. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals’ Spritam for epilepsy is the first and only FDAapproved 3D printed drug. 

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Use of 3D Printing in regenerative medicine:

here is a major health crisis in terms of the shortage of organs, as the population is living for longer due to medical advances. Since 2013, the number of patients requiring an organ has doubled, while the actual number of available donor organs has barely moved (HRSA, 2020).

Regenerative medicine involves many different areas, using scaffolds, biomaterials, cells, or a combination of biomaterials and cells to attempt to create organs for transplants instead of relying on the current donor model. Recently, the creation of multilayered objects (tissues/organs) from soft biomaterials such as living cells and biomimetic synthetic polymers has been the most challenging technological advancement in the field.

Although many problems need to be solved for complex organs (such as the heart or liver) to be 3D bioprinted and subsequently transplanted into a patient, simple organs such as the bladder have been transplanted into patients since the early 2000s.



Researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia have developed a 3D bioprinter that can replicate human ears for use in reconstructive surgery. The bio-ink uses stem cells to grow human ear cartilage using the 3D-printing technology, to create a "living ear" for use in reconstructive surgery .




 

 3D-printable prosthetics are changing the face of medicine, as engineers and physicians are able to develop prosthetics that are fully customized to the wearer. Consumer 3D printing is leading to an even bigger revolution: "DIY" assistive devices that can be printed by virtually anyone, anywhere.

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