Researchers from the Department of Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology (PŚ) are part of a team that has developed personalised 3D printed implants – bioresorbable and bone-forming. This innovative solution has already helped more than a dozen patients.

The novelty of the implants developed by the team of scientists lies in the fact that they are manufactured from bioresorbable and bone-forming materials, i.e. they grow over bone tissue. The material is developed and manufactured by a team of scientists from the Poznań University of Technology. 

“My role is to model the patient’s anatomical structures. Since our implants are personalised, my work always starts with the results of the CT scan. On their basis, with the help of specialised software, I develop a virtual anatomical model, and then Professor Wyleżoł, using the haptic modelling technique, creates a model of the implant filling the defect, adjusted to the curvature of the given bone”, explains Dr Eng. Magdalena Muzalewska from the Poznań University of Technology.

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