3-D Printed Implants Hit The Market, Pave The Way For More Personalized Devices

Multiple companies have recently used 3-D printing to make implantable devices that are customized to specific patients or to improve manufacturing precision and efficiency. The current activity could be a first step toward establishing a new paradigm of personalized implants, FDA and others suggest.

Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, employs computer models to build three-dimensional objects by printing layers of materials – including plastics/polymers, metals, powders and liquids – on top of each other