3D Printing in Surgical Strategies
A special issue of Surgeries (ISSN 2673-4095).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 16894
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past 5–10 years, additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has become extremely inexpensive and highly accessible. Therefore, the use of 3D printing in biomedical applications has become somewhat mainstream. Low-cost, high-quality instruments, personalized devices and teaching tools have become widely used in industrial, academic and medical settings. Fused deposition modeling using polymers such as polylactic acid, polycaprolactone, or other composites including polyurethanes, are widely used for medical applications including pre-surgical planning, resident surgical training, and patient education. Moreover, these polymeric devices or scaffolds are now combined with bioprinting to open new avenues to cutting-edge research toward musculoskeletal repair and regeneration such as pre-vascularized bone or soft-tissue constructs. Most importantly, these tools are being widely used to generate composite scaffolds representing matrices on which to culture cells of various tissue types such as bone, cartilage, cardiac, and nervous tissue. 3D-printed composite matrix scaffolds are being tested in highly sophisticated in vitro and in vivo preclinical models, paving the way for future clinical translation where the ultimate goal is to generate functional replacement tissues. Other avenues include devices for personalized medicine and drug delivery highly applicable to the pharmaceutic industry and beyond. This Special Issue will focus on the current landscape of 3D printing or biofabrication with specific applications in experimental and innovative surgical approaches including tissue engineered grafts, tissue substitutes, surgical guides, models for surgical training and advanced pre-surgical models.
Dr. Derek H. Rosenzweig
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 3D printing
- additive manufacturing
- surgical innovation
- surgical guides
- pre-surgery models
- teaching
- tissue repair
- tissue engineering
- orthopaedics
- medical devices
- surgical simulations
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