3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

Applications in Health Care & Medicine

The method has been applied to (and used by) a wide range of industries, including medical technology. Frequently therapeutic imaging procedures, for example, X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and ultrasounds are utilized to deliver the first computerized model, which is in this manner sustained into the 3D printer. It has been forecast that 3D printing in the medical field will be worth $3.5bn by 2025, compared to $713.3m in 2016. The industry’s compound annual growth rate is supposed to reach 17.7% between 2017 and 2025. There are four core uses of 3D printing in the medical field that are associated with recent innovations: creating tissues and organics, surgical tools, patient-specific surgical models and custom-made prosthetics.