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Patient-Specific Surgical Implants Made of 3D Printed PEEK: Material, Technology, and Scope of Surgical Application.

  • Honigmann P Hand Surgery, Kantonsspital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland.
  • Sharma N Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Okolo B Apium Additive Technologies GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Popp U Apium Additive Technologies GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Msallem B Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Thieringer FM Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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  • 2018-05-02
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  • BioMed research international. - 2018
Humans
Implants, Experimental
Ketones
Patient-Specific Modeling
Polyethylene Glycols
Precision Medicine
Printing, Three-Dimensional
English Additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly gaining acceptance in the healthcare sector. Three-dimensional (3D) virtual surgical planning, fabrication of anatomical models, and patient-specific implants (PSI) are well-established processes in the surgical fields. Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) has been used, mainly in the reconstructive surgeries as a reliable alternative to other alloplastic materials for the fabrication of PSI. Recently, it has become possible to fabricate PEEK PSI with Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology. 3D printing of PEEK using FFF allows construction of almost any complex design geometry, which cannot be manufactured using other technologies. In this study, we fabricated various PEEK PSI by FFF 3D printer in an effort to check the feasibility of manufacturing PEEK with 3D printing. Based on these preliminary results, PEEK can be successfully used as an appropriate biomaterial to reconstruct the surgical defects in a "biomimetic" design.
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