3D Printing – the myth or reality? Let’s sea the real cases
In medicine today approx 16.4% of all manufactured 3D Printers are used. Below are the real examples of implementation
The pharmaceutical industry and medicine in general are among the first who began to use additive manufacturing not only for prototyping, but also to create a finished product. Metal crowns for teeth, hearing aids, prostheses, orthotics, prosthetics funds – all these are made with the help of 3D. Using additive manufacturing has allowed to make, for example, prostheses to people affected by disaster, the most rigged to the anatomy of their bodies.
For example, a team from South America in conjunction with experts from Washington developed a program that lets you create with the help of 3DP mechanical fingers. This fruitful collaboration has allowed parents of five year old boy, born without fingers on his right hand, to help their child. The parents could not afford to buy a prosthesis for $ 10,000 for each finger, and the acquisition does not make sense, because the hand of the child is growing rapidly, and prostheses should to be changes every year. But it became possible for the boy to have fingers thanks to collaboration of scientists who worked on 3DP. As a reselt of this collaboration the boy could capture and hold any item and the price of the 3D printed finger was only $ 150
The company Align technology produces special mouthguard, which are made of a transparent material, invisible to others, and which are used for teeth correction. Such invisible tooth correction means should be worn 20 -22 hours a day, and more than 150 million mouthguards, printed with the help of 3D, were sold since 1997.
