Rapid Prototyping Technology in Bone Tissue Engineering

Fabrication of Tissue Engineering Using Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping (RP) techniques are a group of advanced manufacturing processes that can produce custom made objects directly from computer data such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Using RP fabrication techniques, constructs with controllable and complex internal architecture with appropriate mechanical properties can be ach...

Tissue Engineering in Maxillary Bone Defects

BACKGROUND Restoration of craniofacial bone defects has been a concern for oral and maxillofacial surgeons. In this study, the healing effect of fibrin glue scaffold was compared with autologous bone graft in mandibular defects of rabbit. METHODS Bilateral unicortical osteotomy was performed in the diastema region of 10 male Dutch rabbits. The subjects were randomly divided into 2 equal group...

Rapid Prototyping in Biomedical Engineering

Rapid prototyping: porous titanium alloy scaffolds produced by selective laser melting for bone tissue engineering.

Selective laser melting (SLM), a method used in the nuclear, space, and racing industries, allows the creation of customized titanium alloy scaffolds with highly defined external shape and internal structure using rapid prototyping as supporting external structures within which bone tissue can grow. Human osteoblasts were cultured on SLM-produced Ti6Al4V mesh scaffolds to demonstrate biocompati...

RAPID Prototyping Technology

In order to stay competitive in the high-tech electronics consumer market, companies must continue to offer new products with superior capabilities, higher power efficiency, and smaller form factors at accelerated design schedules. For example, consumers upgrade their cell phones about every two years. Manufacturers are thus challenged to rapidly develop and produce phones that offer more advan...