Materialise has introduced the opening of a brand new medical 3D printing facility in the US, which the corporate says will speed up the supply of patient-specific medical implants to sufferers within the nation. Materialise says that surgeons are more and more embracing 3D printing options as they recognise the “added worth” it brings to personalised affected person care.
The power, positioned in Plymouth, Michigan, will specialise within the 3D printing of personalised titanium cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) implants. CMF implants are used for facial reconstructive surgical procedure. Till now, Materialise manufactured titanium CMF implants solely at its 3D printing facility in Belguim.
With a devoted steel 3D printing facility within the US, Materialise can reply to suregons wants with higher reliability says the corporate, in addition to lowering supply time of implants to hospitals.
“With the opening of our new steel 3D printing centre within the U.S., we convey personalised care nearer to U.S. sufferers,” stated Brigitte de Vet, Vice President of Medical at Materialise. “The ability of 3D printing paired with our three a long time of expertise in 3D planning and medical manufacturing, permits us to speed up the supply of personalised medical implants. We take delight in main the cost to revolutionise patient-specific care and with our devoted facility in Michigan we additional improve personalised care in the US.”
Materialise says that the appearance of applied sciences resembling 3D printing and superior visualisation methods has reworked personalised affected person care. The corporate says that with 3D printing resulting in extra predictable and correct surgical outcomes, surgeons are more and more adopting the know-how as a part of their medical practices to convey personalised care nearer to sufferers, and scale back total prices.
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