Healthcare 3D printing is the next technology frontier in the healthcare industry. This field has shown its potential in recent years and is the biggest current breakthrough in the healthcare industry. Slowly, 3D printing will evolve into a mainstream medical practice.
That’s according to a new report from Research and Markets, which takes a closer look at several types of 3D printing solutions that have been created to benefit patients across various medical applications, such as developing biocompatible nanotechnologies using 3D printing and in vitro regeneration of ear cartilage, to name just a few.
The report also sheds light on various 3D printing technologies that are currently available and associated materials that can be used for various medical applications, the development of medical devices or organs for various applications at affordable prices, and opportunities expected to open up for various medical applications due to the customizability in design and size afforded by 3D printing.
Do you agree or disagree with this report? Why or why not?
THIS is a field that will explode onto the healthcare market when it reaches a level of maturity that can deliver custom solutions in record time. I can see it delivering destroyed phalanges prosthesis and read, just yesterday of a 3D eyeball capable vision! Inner ear cartilage to heart valves to new coronary arteries. You name it. Create the necessary biocompatible materials and you can create almost ANYTHING in the human body. Combine this new science with nanotechnologies coming out and we may very well be able to produce, dare I say it, brain tissue. Certainly nerve tissue. Paraplegics and Quadriplegics will be a malady of the past. Enough, I’m getting down from the podium now. 🙂