Medical & Dental

Medical & Dental

Micro 3D Printing Slashes Costs, Lead Time for Medical Part

Micro 3D printing enabled AntiShock to produce a small-dimension, high-detail part with greater accuracy than SLA and at 20% of the cost of CNC production.

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Metal

Tsunami Medical Uses Additive Manufacturing for Innovating Surgical Solutions

The Tsunami Medical team is working to improve implant design and challenging conventional manufacturing techniques of the past.

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Basics

Does 3D Printing Drive Startups, or Vice-Versa? AM Radio #1

What is it about 3D printing that makes it such a common choice for startup companies? Are these businesses driving additive manufacturing forward, or are they being driven? Peter Zelinski, Stephanie Hendrixson and Julia Hider discuss.

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Advanced Laser Materials’ PA 650 Earns Biocompatibility Certification

The nylon-based material is approved for use in applications that come into contact with human skin as well as food, such as trays, assembly lines and end-of-arm tooling.

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Production

Freeformer Enables Tailored Pharmaceutical Production

A 3D printer for polymer part production has enabled researchers from the University of East Anglia to develop individually tailored pharmaceuticals that better support patient needs and outcomes.

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Ceramic

Desktop Health Receives FDA Clearance for Flexcera 3D Printed Dentures

Resin technology for dental prosthetics is said to deliver superior strength, aesthetics  and function for patients.

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Basics

How A Digital Manufacturing Workflow Is Making Orthoses, Prostheses More Accessible

Digitization of the workflow needed to create limb prostheses, orthoses, helmets and more means that these devices will become more readily available. Using 3D scanning and 3D printing, EastPoint Prosthetics and Orthotics and Additive America have established a way to produce these devices that both changes lives and makes business sense. 

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3D Printed Headgear that Can Take a Hit: The Cool Parts Show #31

A custom helmet made via Multi Jet Fusion has allowed Sarah Piersanti to get back to practicing jiu-jitsu without fear of damaging her cochlear implant.

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Implants

EOS System Installed in Orthopedic Hospital for Point-of-Care Printing

Hospital for Special Surgery and LimaCorporate open first provider-based 3D design and printing center for complex joint reconstruction surgery.

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Medical & Dental

Profitable AM Is Not an Oxymoron

How a kangaroo, a chest implant, and the cost of argon prompted a question that led to the title for this month’s column. AM's full economic return is found in the overall product bottom line.

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