Usability of 3D Printing in the field of Medicine

3D printing simply means the process of making or manufacturing three dimensional solid objects from a digital file or a material. But due to the development of technology within day by day

nowadays we can use this 3D printing in many applications. As an example, we can use this technology in industrial applications like constructing, manufacturing applications like Rapid manufacturing, sociocultural applications like 3D selfies and also in medical applications which here we are going to talk.

Recently there are many innovations have arisen based around this technology. And it became a great relief for the patients as well as the doctors to cure medical problems.

Now let’s see some applications which use 3D printing in the medical field.

  • Bio print tissues and organs of humans

In this case, rather than printing using plastic or metal, bioprinters use a computer-guided pipette to layer living cells an to create artificial living tissues. By examine the organs origins and the structures, the same cells will be given as the input materials for this system, and finally using those this will construct the organs which will look like the original organs and act like the same.

This method is cheaper than the normal human organ transplants in nowadays. So by using this technology, we can transplant livers, kidneys and so many organs at a lower cost.

The prime example of this scenario is Kaiba Gionfriddo’s story. That boy was suffered from tracheobronchomalacia, which means the weakness of windpipe. Due to that most of the time, his breathing was stopped. So as the solution they gave him a 3D printed bioresorbable device which instantly helps him to breathe.

Not only that surgeons can use 3D printed patient-specific organ replicas to practice before performing complicated operations.

  • Develop prosthetic parts

Normally creating prosthetic is very time consuming and costly, and most of the time it doesn’t support with our existing body parts. But as a solution using 3D printing it can quickly produce cheap and customized prosthetic parts.  

The prime example of this type of scenario was Liam’s story. Using 3D printing they create a prosthetic hand which can help him. This method was effective because the child grows fast so constantly we have to change those prostheses parts according to that. Use of the traditional method for this scenario would get more cost-effective and time-consuming. But 3D printing helped to reduce that complexity.

L
  • Printing our own medicine

The prototype 3D printer assembles chemical compounds at the molecular level. When the patients would go to an online drugstore with their digital prescription and buy the blueprint and the chemical ink needed, After that they can print their drugs at home. By using this nowadays researchers have printed biocompatible, biodegradable devices for delivering bone cancers.

  • Braincase or cranium replacement

Using 3D printing now we can create artificial skull made of plastic or titanium. In a case like damaging the skull due to an accident, we can use this. The world’s first complete skull transplant was done in Netherland for women using a plastic tailor printed through 3D printing method.

  • Skin printer or synthetic skin

Normally if we got burned, most of the time the scars and wounds do not get healed quickly. Most of the time that scars remains whole through our life. Because of this reason, there are a lot of people who try to hide their self from society. But using this technology it can bring great relief for that kind of people. This 3D printer can print skins straightly on to the wounds of burn victims. Here that printer can generate the appropriate number of skin layers to fill the wound. Using this it can use to treat wounded soldiers.

Not only that using this we can create surgical instruments like forceps, clamps, hemostats and all kind of tiny instruments at a low cost.

So above applications are the main trend appliances which use 3D printing technology in the field of medicine. Let’s meet through another article.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *