The 3d
print keeps entering the medicine. Doctors simulate interventions on models,
employ tailor-made implants and drive the technology forward significantly.
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3d
printing is on everyone's lips-the driving force of technology is medicine.
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Models
for surgical preparation and prostheses of all kinds come from the 3d printer
today.
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Announced
revolution: In a few years, artificial organs could come from the 3d printer.
A heart
from the 3d printer-This sounds like science fiction, but is long since
reality. The cardiologist Professor Dr. Christian Butter has made a model from
the heart of a patient. He looks at the organ, gently gropes it and prepares
for the upcoming operation. "The heart is scarred, the procedure is complicated,"
explains the chief physician of the Heart center of Brandenburg. The
true-to-the-original model of soft plastic helps the specialist. "I can understand the heart caves and
better understand what is expected of me during the operation," he says.
Such an
organ costs a few thousand euros, but it is a great help in difficult cases. '
Medical practitioners can use the 3d models to sawing, screwing and milling.
Everything you do during the operation, "explains Stephan Zeidler, product
manager at the company (medical model manufacture), who produced the
artificial heart. The save time in the actual operation and lead to better
treatment results, he argues. In China, doctors recently reconstructed the face
and skull of a small girl, which was heavily deformed from birth, using a model
from the 3d printer. Before the girl was operated, the experts were able to
rehearse the complicated procedure.
Dentistry
Dentists
are advancing the 3d printing technology: About half of all dental crowns and
bridges in this country comes from industrial 3d printers, according to
experts. The collection of digital technologies into the dental world has
changed the production dramatically. Dental technicians used to work mostly by
hand with soldering iron, burner and other instruments, nowadays they use
computers more and more often. Up to 450 individual dental crowns and bridges
can be produced within 24 hours.
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Aviation and medicine are advancing 3d printing '
The
idea that a machine produces tailor-made products at the push of a button
inspires both laymen and professionals alike. Additive production-also called
industrial 3d printing-is considered to be the next major technical revolution.
There are different printing methods, but the principle is always the same: on
the computer, a three-dimensional model is broken down into thin layers.
Special systems build these in each case again layer by layer, so that the
virtual creates a real model. The materials used include various plastics,
ceramics or metals. The market for 3d printers will have reached 2018 a volume
of 16.2 billion US dollars, predicts the U.S. research firm Canalys.
"Above all, the aviation industry and medicine are advancing the
technology," says Daniel Hund of the company concept Laser, which manufactures
corresponding plants.
Whether
joint implants, artificial stents for air tubes, complete dentures or
dentures-the list of medical products from the 3d printers is growing
steadily. "Almost every imaginable
shape or geometry that can be constructed with a 3d CAD program is
additive-ready," explains Hund. There are almost no restrictions-not even
in the production of joints or hollow structures. "Even the smallest anatomical structures
can be recreated," he says.
2 Print
Beta
2 print
Beta is a printer manufacturer and 3d printing service provider from Konstanz.
In addition to 3d complete systems and kits, the company's offer also includes
services.
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