Individualized treatment of orthopaedics and 3D printing technology
- VernacularTitle:骨科个体化治疗与3D打印技术
- Author:
Liao WANG
1
;
Ke-rong DAI
1
Author Information
1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedics Implants, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Orthopaedics;
Individualized treatment;
Three-dimensional (3D) printing;
Prosthesis
- From:
Journal of Medical Biomechanics
2014;29(3):E193-E199
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Individualized treatment is an important direction in the development of orthopaedics. Either the application of the custom-made implants or using patient-specific surgical instrument to assist the implantation of conventional prosthesis, theoretically, could improve the matching between the implants and adjacent bony structures, so as to improve the overall function of the patients. However, the superiority of individualized treatment in theory cannot compensate its complexity and time-lag caused by individualized therapy in preoperative planning, design, manufacturing, etc. Therefore, individualized treatment is just a concept in most of the time. With the development of image technology and the maturity of 3D printing technique, the efficiency of individualized design and manufacturing is expected to be improving significantly, which shows the potential to translate this elegant concept into a practical principle.
