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#4395370 - 12/17/17 11:47 PM 3D printing sure has come long way.  
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Was browsing youtube and found this new 3d printer that uses metal through a powder. Pretty cool to watch.



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#4395395 - 12/18/17 04:40 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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This has me excited for the medical applications possible.

My wife shattered her elbow about 10 years ago, and after three surgeries it's functional, but painful. She describes it as being hit on one's "funny bone" over and over and over again. They'd put in an artificial joint...if the technology for a decent one for elbows existed. Knees and hips have been pretty much perfected, as they're in demand, but not elbows. They don't have the library of sizes of artificial joints, either.

They told her she's too young for the artificial joints on the market, as they don't last long and kind of suck. So welcome to "pain management."

What I'd like to see is a procedure where they perform an MRI on her good elbow joint, put it into 3D mapping, mirror it (for the other side), tweak it for insertion into the bone and a ceramic joint for the ball, and hey, presto! custom sized artificial joint.

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#4395396 - 12/18/17 05:05 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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Actually, I work for a company that is developing exactly that, Dart. They do 3D scans of a joint then use metallic 3D printing to create a replacement for the damaged part.


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#4395410 - 12/18/17 10:03 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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#4395509 - 12/18/17 09:09 PM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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Here's something I worked on today.

3d printed dental models from an intraoral scanner straight to our form2 printers ready for me to place the brackets. Ormco Ice if anyone's interested. The colour comes off - they're only for identifying and visual guidance and we supply tooth coloured wires too.

Soon we're starting to place the brackets within our 3d software which cuts out the much of the manual work. It'll need to be an easy workflow cos I'm pretty slick doing it by hand.

3d printers and medical stuff is seriously evolving.

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i am especially interested in 3d bio printing.

there are companies developing printers which print living cells into the shape of an organ. the experiments so far have been fantastic. IMO this could be the future of immortality. if we figure out how to make ultra accurate scans of the body, down to the cellular level or better, as well as how to brain-dump memories into a computer, we will be able to regenerate ourselves any time.

the best thing is that it doesn't require clone growth (very slow process) to do.

of course there are the other obvious benefits of just being able to help people who are sick by printing a new organ for them.

very exciting times. wonder how long it will take before the brain scan quality catches up with the printers.

#4395547 - 12/19/17 02:52 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: VF9_Longbow]  
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Originally Posted by VF9_Longbow
i am especially interested in 3d bio printing.

there are companies developing printers which print living cells into the shape of an organ. the experiments so far have been fantastic. IMO this could be the future of immortality. if we figure out how to make ultra accurate scans of the body, down to the cellular level or better, as well as how to brain-dump memories into a computer, we will be able to regenerate ourselves any time.

the best thing is that it doesn't require clone growth (very slow process) to do.

of course there are the other obvious benefits of just being able to help people who are sick by printing a new organ for them.

very exciting times. wonder how long it will take before the brain scan quality catches up with the printers.


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#4395559 - 12/19/17 06:38 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: Arthonon]  
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Originally Posted by Arthonon
Actually, I work for a company that is developing exactly that, Dart. They do 3D scans of a joint then use metallic 3D printing to create a replacement for the damaged part.


That is full of awesome.

When they get to the trials let me know.


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#4395739 - 12/19/17 09:17 PM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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#4395797 - 12/20/17 02:25 AM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: JimK]  
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Jay Leno's Garage reproduces rare parts that way.

He's got a couple, maybe two-three dollars.


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#4397343 - 12/29/17 05:34 PM Re: 3D printing sure has come long way. [Re: VF9_Longbow]  
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Sure metal and resin/ plastic printing has a lot of scope in medicine! I work for a 3D printing Service company and we recently started with metal 3D printing, its metal sintering process and its so amazing to watch creating parts from metal powder! metal 3D printing surely takes additive manufacturing to another level.

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