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The Lattice 84: Healthcare 3D Printing Newsletter
About the Lattice this week:Â Why do computer-generated 3D lattices look like a piece of bone, tissue, or an alien-like organism? One can argue that all living things can be deduced into...
Cybersecurity for 3D Printed Medical Devices (Guide)
On Jan 21st, 2021, we invited four legal and technological experts from world-class institutions (Identify3D, NYU, MedCrypt, Duane Morris ) to present their perspectives on the future landscape...
Interview with Dr. Edyta Bula, 3D Printing for Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Edyta Bula is a third-year small animal surgery resident at Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is concurrently near completion of her Masters of Science...
Metal Lattices for Medical Implants: Fatigue Performance Optimization
Metal additive manufacturing (or metal 3D printing) is now a well-established and mature technology, used globally for the production of end-use metal parts in various industries. In medical...
The Lattice 83: Healthcare 3D Printing Newsletter
About the Lattice this week: The lattice this week is a 3D printed bone graft by @particle3D. In an Expert Corner blog recently, the co-founder Casper Slots wrote about the importance of porosity in...
Why Copper? A Conversation with Daniel Martinez Copper3D (Recording and Notes)
Why is Copper the new darling to the 3D printing industry? Even before the pandemic, Daniel Martinez and his co-founders at Copper3D, a Chilean startup, had a grand vision for Copper-based...
Expert's Corner
Cybersecurity for 3D Printed Medical Devices (Guide)
On Jan 21st, 2021, we invited four legal and technological experts from world-class institutions (Identify3D, NYU, MedCrypt, Duane Morris ) to present their perspectives on the future landscape of cybersecurity for 3D printed medical devices. Given the nascent nature of our field, many in the healthcare 3D printing ecosystem have not considered cybersecurity as the number one priority in their product design or adoption, and that is why 3DHEALS organized this event to lay the foundation of this likely important conversation. The cyberattack has made multiple headlines this year, and not in a good way. Major headlines related to medical device malfunction or cybersecurity breach in the healthcare system and 3D printing space will happen with certain, and it's just a matter of when and how. I have compiled the important takeaways from the webinar, relevant resources, and data into this guide. Hopefully, this will at least inspire you to learn more and start critical conversations. Full event speaker biographies can be found here.
Metal Lattices for Medical Implants: Fatigue Performance Optimization
Metal additive manufacturing (or metal 3D printing) is now a well-established and mature technology, used globally for the production of end-use metal parts in various industries. In medical applications, the major advantage of metal additive manufacturing is found for custom and patient-specific implants and medical devices. The patient-specific geometry ensures the best possible fit for the patient, improving the healing time and improving the success rate. A second major advantage is the possibility to create porous metal structures as a part or whole of the implant. These porous structures are also called cellular or lattice structures. These intentionally-designed or “architected” cellular structures are beneficial for implants for a few reasons: 1) They can be designed to better match the required mechanical properties (to have effective properties more similar to that of the adjacent bone, compared to solid metal). 2) Their porous nature is beneficial to the flow of nutrients and vascularization, hence enhancing the bone growth process. And over the longer term, they allow bone ingrowth into the open porous structure, for a better bone-implant attachment. In this article, we will focus on an important concept in metal 3D printing, fatigue performance. When an object is subjected to continued cyclic loads with maximum loads below the yield strength of the material, eventually cracks form and the material fails - this is fatigue. The fatigue strength refers to the load maximum at which the material withstands a few million cycles (high cycle fatigue) or several millions of cycles (very high cycle fatigue). The fatigue life refers to the number of cycles at a specific load before failure occurs. Fatigue performance refers to the combination of these at various load conditions and therefore refers to the general ability of a material to withstand such failures.
Why Copper? A Conversation with Daniel Martinez Copper3D (Recording and Notes)
Why is Copper the new darling to the 3D printing industry? Even before the pandemic, Daniel Martinez and his co-founders at Copper3D, a Chilean startup, had a grand vision for Copper-based nanocomposite materials, for 3D printing, and for non-additive manufacturing globally to produce products that have long-lasting anti-microbial products. This podcast is a recording of our weekly Instagram Live interview with Daniel. You can find the video version of this recording on our website 3dheals.com, our IG account, and our Vimeo channel.
Robin Huizing: The Power of 3D Printing Design and Education
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Robin Huizing, the founder of Addmio, a 3D printing education platform. During this fun conversation, Robin showed us the power of 3D printing design with a demo from his new idea of a personalized mouse. Our conversation expanded from there.
Bone Grafts: Inducing Bone Regeneration with 3D Printed Porosity
Bone provides a living system with essential rigidity. Accidents, infections, bone tumors, and other diseases make bone repair and regeneration a substantial challenge in orthopedics. Major bone reconstruction methods usually use autografts or allografts with good biocompatibility to enhance bone union. However, these bone grafts suffer from numerous limitations, making synthetic alternatives a fascinating option. Calcium phosphates act as synthetic bone graft substitutes because they are osteoconductive and exhibit the possibility of biodegradation. Osteoconduction is the ability of bone-forming cells to invade the scaffold that is formed by the osteoconductive material and gradually replace it with new bone. However, calcium phosphates also carry the risk of implant failure due to insufficient porosity. Dense biomaterials represent only an interfacial connection with host tissue and may cause encapsulation of the implant by fibrous tissue. Thereby, dense biomaterials may hinder the degradation process and are therefore prone to microbial adhesion and the development of infections.
Interview Recording with Victoria Hand Project: 3D printed prosthetics
Fun conversation with Michael Peirone and Kelly Knight from Victoria Hand Project with technical demos and economic discussion on how 3D printed prosthetics can change the lives of upper Limb amputees and the world we live in. VHP has helped over 200 amputees worldwide and this year, they aim to help more North American patients.
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