- Best 3D prints: The crazy and coolest things people have printed
The Cyborg Beast Design
Tailor-made sensors
What you’re seeing here is a fully personalised heart sensor. A 3D printed sensor that’s a perfect fit the for the user, as everyone’s organs are different.
3D printed blood vessels
Accurate micro-tools
3D printed heart valves
This bio-printing system ensures doctors can create a patient-specific heart valve that’s more likely to take and keep the user alive.
Complex surgical tools
Supporting exoskeletons
3D printing is helping with the development of exoskeletons designed to help disabled people by giving them back the ability to move in ways they couldn’t.
Transplant jaws
An 83-year-old woman was faced with issues of a chronic bone infection and doctors turned to 3D printing to print a new jaw.
Real bone from a 3D printer
3D printing in calcium phosphate, the main constituent of natural bone, allows bone repair like never before.
Flexible bone implants
3D printing in the medical world
Scientists successfully created the first functional 3D printed ear that’s capable of hearing frequencies beyond that of the average human ear.
Replacement tissue
Stem cells
It’s nearly possible to load living cells into a capable machine to 3D print tissues, organs and more.
Printed organs
Medical researchers have successfully designed a printer that’s capable of printing kidney cells into a three-dimensional kidney prototype.
3D printed teeth
If you’re worried about losing teeth, you might not need to worry much longer. Soon dentists might be able to print you a replacement.
3D printed medication
3D printing isn’t limited to new body parts and skin cells, it’s also being used in the creation of medication. In this case epilepsy meds.
Printed noses
Biomedical engineers are 3D printing replacement noses to help those in desperate need of reconstructive surgery.
Printed skin
Printed lenses
What you’re looking at here might be the start of 3D printed prescription lenses, though it’s certainly in its early stages.
Medical models to help surgeons
3D bioprinting techniques are also applied to the creation of replica body parts that can be used in the training of new surgeons.
Orthodontic braces
A college student, low on cash but not lacking in ideas used 3D printing technology to create his own orthodontic braces after scanning his teeth,
3D printed skulls
Surgeons used 3D printing techniques to create a replacement skull which was successfully implanted in life saving surgery.
Advanced wound care
A medical research team in Finland have used nano-structure cellulose to make 3D printed smart dressings that not only heal but also monitor skin wounds.
Project Daniel
Limbitless
The first 3D printed mechanical hand
Superhero themed prosthetics
EXO prosthetic legs
Art4Leg
This is a project aimed at creating covers for leg prosthesis to add a bit of style and flair to an otherwise uninspiring but necessary medical appendage.
Prosthetics for animals
Microswimmers
Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands have 3D printed microscopic objects designed to mimic and allow the study of microswimmers.
A cast that helps you heal
3D kidney models
Bone plates
Another superb use of 3D printing in the medical space is the printing of parts that can be used to repair damaged skulls.
