Ricoh & Insight Surgery partner to offer 3D printed surgical guides
Ricoh USA, Inc. and Insight Surgery, an expert in personalized surgical planning and guide production, partner to provide healthcare professionals with 3D printed surgical guides. This is not Ricoh’s first collaboration to develop surgical...
Exactech announces the completion of their first ankle surgery with 3D printed tibial implants
A global medical tech firm - Exactech has announced the successful completion of the first ankle replacement surgery with its Vantage® Ankle 3D and 3D+ tibial implants.
The MD of St. Luke’s University Health Network,...
Current possibilities of Additive Manufacturing in the cranio-maxillofacial field
A conversation with Prof. Florian Thieringer.
Among the wide range of specialists found in medicine, I have often called craniomaxillofacial surgeons gifted artists. Their ability to treat the soft tissue and skeletal structures of...
VA improves radiation therapy for veterans with 3D printed boluses
VA is a Veteran Affairs department from the US government that pledged to protect the veteran survivors' families who have served as military personnel. VA’s Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM) creates patient-based, FDA-approved Radiotherapy...
Nvision secures FDA clearance for 3D-printed porous PEEK interbody system
San Antonio-based medical device & implant manufacturing company Nvision Biomedical Technologies & Invibio Biomaterial Solutions™ from the UK received FDA clearance for their 3D-printed porous PEEK interbody system.
The 3D-printed PEEK interbody system was made...
Approval of medical 3D printed products and their market access
“Just because you can print it doesn’t mean you can use it.”
While the healthcare and medical industries are the first sectors to propel the growth of Additive Manufacturing (AM), this sentence from 3D-Side resonated...
Amnovis already 3D printed 50,000 titanium implants using a heat-treatment-free process
Amnovis, the Belgian manufacturer of 3D printed titanium implants, has achieved an important milestone with the production of 50,000+ titanium implants. The company started providing this manufacturing service in 2021 - using a heat...
Restor3d launches personalized solution for ankle arthroplasty: Kinos Range
Restor3d, a 3D-printed orthopedic implant manufacturer, announced the market release of the Kinos Range, an articulating surface to the Kinos Total Ankle System family.
The company explains that this new offering of vitamin E crosslinked...
Desktop Health qualifies Flexcera family resins for LuxCreo 3D printers
Desktop Health, a subsidiary of Desktop Metal, announced that its Flexcera® family of FDA-cleared nanoceramic polymers, used in dental cosmetic, restorative, and removable applications, are now compatible with LuxCreo's 3D printers.
Known for their orthodontic...
The potential of metamaterials for (medical) Additive Manufacturing
Remember when we said that the true success of an application usually depends on an underappreciated component: material? Well, the more AM advances, the more we realize that the array of opportunities materials offer...
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