Wednesday, March 13, 2013

3D-Printed Implant


Several times here on DIT we have linked to information about 3D printers and the amazing things they are making.

Seems that printers in the 21st Century are not limited to making paper copies of articles, books, faxes, and etc.

Now there are 3D printers.

What do they do?

Well, they make tools, and car parts, and various other things such as what you will see in the article to which we are linking today.

What is it this time?

Well, it seems that instead of using metal plates (as has been the custom for years)  to replace a part of a skull bone, 

custom made skull implants are now made using a 3D printer.

Want to know more and see an example?

Knew you would.  So, HERE'S THE LINK

And to see a 3 minute 36 second video of a 3D printer at work (not the one that made the skull bone replacement but the concept is the same), HERE'S THE LINK

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