{"title":"3D printing of maxillofacial prosthesis materials: Challenges and opportunities","authors":"Anish Das , Pratiksha Awasthi , Veena Jain , Shib Shankar Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.bprint.2023.e00282","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Millions of people worldwide suffer from birth defects, trauma, or illness that affect their mental well-being, social interactions, professional life, finance, and life quality. Prosthesis revamps the standard of life for most affected people by restoring aesthetics and functions to anatomical parts where plastic surgery is unsuitable and costly. To overcome the issues of conventional fabrication such as lack of attachment, function, robustness, aesthetics, and cost, </span>3D printing could be a suitable technology to manufacture prosthesis products. However, 3D printing of prosthesis materials is currently in the very early phase of evolution and is facing various challenges, like limited 3D printing of compatible prosthesis materials, issues with printability, defects, and low </span>mechanical strength<span><span> in the printed parts. On the other hand, the interface and software for manufacturing maxillofacial prosthesis products are costly. This review article aims to address the challenges and opportunities associated with the 3D printing of maxillofacial prosthesis material using computer-aided design. The current advancements in the 3D printing of prosthesis materials is summarized and future prospectives of additive manufacturing of prosthesis materials are exhaustively discussed in order to encourage potential research in this area. Furthermore, the successful implementation of additive manufacturing techniques in prosthesis will enhance its potential in large-scale </span>biomedical applications<span> and scalable customization.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":37770,"journal":{"name":"Bioprinting","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioprinting","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405886623000258","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Computer Science","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Millions of people worldwide suffer from birth defects, trauma, or illness that affect their mental well-being, social interactions, professional life, finance, and life quality. Prosthesis revamps the standard of life for most affected people by restoring aesthetics and functions to anatomical parts where plastic surgery is unsuitable and costly. To overcome the issues of conventional fabrication such as lack of attachment, function, robustness, aesthetics, and cost, 3D printing could be a suitable technology to manufacture prosthesis products. However, 3D printing of prosthesis materials is currently in the very early phase of evolution and is facing various challenges, like limited 3D printing of compatible prosthesis materials, issues with printability, defects, and low mechanical strength in the printed parts. On the other hand, the interface and software for manufacturing maxillofacial prosthesis products are costly. This review article aims to address the challenges and opportunities associated with the 3D printing of maxillofacial prosthesis material using computer-aided design. The current advancements in the 3D printing of prosthesis materials is summarized and future prospectives of additive manufacturing of prosthesis materials are exhaustively discussed in order to encourage potential research in this area. Furthermore, the successful implementation of additive manufacturing techniques in prosthesis will enhance its potential in large-scale biomedical applications and scalable customization.
期刊介绍:
Bioprinting is a broad-spectrum, multidisciplinary journal that covers all aspects of 3D fabrication technology involving biological tissues, organs and cells for medical and biotechnology applications. Topics covered include nanomaterials, biomaterials, scaffolds, 3D printing technology, imaging and CAD/CAM software and hardware, post-printing bioreactor maturation, cell and biological factor patterning, biofabrication, tissue engineering and other applications of 3D bioprinting technology. Bioprinting publishes research reports describing novel results with high clinical significance in all areas of 3D bioprinting research. Bioprinting issues contain a wide variety of review and analysis articles covering topics relevant to 3D bioprinting ranging from basic biological, material and technical advances to pre-clinical and clinical applications of 3D bioprinting.