3D printed scaffolding

If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you are aware that 3D printing of medical implants and devices is not such a rare thing anymore; what is, however, still rare is the use of 3D printed scaffolds for tissue regeneration. In the case of a male patient who had trauma and deformity to the right side of his face after a tumor removal ten years ago, Korean scientists decided he was a candidate for a 3D printed implant made of biodegradable polymer for bone tissue regeneration – meaning that the implant would eventually be replaced by the patient’s own tissue, as the 3D printed piece disintegrated.

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