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3D Printing in Medicine and Surgery

Applications in Healthcare

  • 1st Edition - August 14, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Daniel J. Thomas, Deepti Singh
  • Language: English

3D Printing in Medicine and Surgery: Applications in Healthcare is an advanced book on surgical and enhanced medical applications that can be achieved with 3D printing. It is an… Read more

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Description

3D Printing in Medicine and Surgery: Applications in Healthcare is an advanced book on surgical and enhanced medical applications that can be achieved with 3D printing. It is an essential handbook for medical practitioners, giving access to a range of practical methods, while also focusing on applied knowledge. This comprehensive resource features practical experiments and processes for preparing 3D printable materials. Early chapters cover foundational knowledge and background reading, while later chapters discuss and review the current technologies used to engineer specific tissue types, experiments and methods, medical approaches and the challenges that lie ahead for future research.

The book is an indispensable reference guide to the various methods used by current medical practitioners working at the forefront of 3D printing applications in medicine.

Key features

  • Provides a detailed introduction and narrative on how 3-D printing can be used towards developing future medicine-based therapies
  • Covers up-to-date methods across a range of application areas for the first time in book form
  • Presents the only book on all current areas of 3D printing in medicine that is catered to a medical rather than engineering audience

Readership

Surgeons, researchers in biomedical engineering, product design, mechanical engineering, regenerative medicine, stem cell science, pharmaceutical studies, biotechnology and/or bio-manufacturing industries

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Clinical Uses of 3D Printing

Part 1: 3D Printing Techniques for Augmenting Medicine

3. 3D Printing Techniques

4. Prosthetics

5. Operative Models

6. Surgical Instruments

Part 2: Applications of 3D Printing in Transplantation Procedures

7. Dental Implants

8. Organ Bioprinting

9. Biomanufacturing

10. 3D Bioprinting of Tissue Systems

11. Transplantable Scaffolds

12. 3D Printing Equipment in Medicine

Part 3: Future Technology and Regulation

13. Future Perspective in Medicine

14. Regulation and Safety

15. Conclusions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 14, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Daniel J. Thomas

Dr. Daniel J. Thomas (BEng (Hons) MSc EngD CSci CEng CEnv FBCS) is an Engineer and Writer who comes from a research background in computational design, biomaterials, 3D Printing, electronics and surgery disciplines. He has Authored two previous medical books and has published 70 journal publications. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OE_l9JoAAAAJ&hl=en
Affiliations and expertise
3Dynamic Systems – Llynfi Enterprise Centre, Heol Ty Gwyn, Wales, UKConsultant Engineer NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA

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Deepti Singh

Deepti Singh is a bioengneer who has been exploring the application of polymeric materials in restoring or repairing injured tissues and organs. With a Ph.D in genetics and biotechnology, she has worked extenisively for the last decade to develop functional biomimetic that can enhance differeniation of embyronic stem cells into desired linage. This book focuses on interesting and new aspects of biomaterial design and its applications. With the emergence of bio-ink, 3D printing could potentially change the entire apporach of regenerative medicine in which instead of restoring and repairing, the disease tissue can be replaced.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, Michael Young's Lab, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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