3-D Printing and Injection Molding of Airways Stents
February 10, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
Tracheal stents today are made of metal, silicon or a combination of both materials, but they are not anatomically personalized. To make a more fitting implant, researchers at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, used 3-D printing to make an anatomically correct model from a photonegative, and then fabricated a silicon prosthetic by injection molding, since direct 3-D printing wasn’t possible with silicon. MORE
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