Doctor Lantieri does more than mend broken bones; he tries to help his patients look as close to normal as possible. In the past, he spent long hours in the operating room, opening hundreds upon ...

Using laser powder bed fusion technology (LPBF, a 3D printing technique), the microstructure and macrostructure of NiTi scaffolds are synergistically optimized by engineering hierarchical ...

Facial and head surgery can require sections of bone to be removed, and doctors often have to harvest material from elsewhere in the body to fill in the gaps. That's not always an ideal situation, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite the long-established prevalence of 3D printing in orthopedic oncology, some orthopedic surgeons said ...

What do you print with your 3D printer? Key chains? More printer parts (our favorite)? Enclosures for PC boards? At Johns Hopkins, they want to print bones. Not Halloween skeletons, either. Actual ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The area of bone ...

Scientists at Yokohama National University, Japan, have combined laser 3D printing technology and what they call “an alternate soaking process” to construct complex 3D structures that mimic bone ...

Last week I went to the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) and it was incredible. This is a toy store for machinists and showcases the best of industrial automation. But one of the ...

Powder 3D printing, specifically Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), offers several advantages over traditional filament and resin 3D printing methods. In the world of 3D printing, powder-based ...