3D Printed Breast Implants

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There is one common thing between the printing industry and the breast implant industry. They are both huge! Also, anyone can purchase breast implants in a similar way that you buy hp toner cartridges, except the “minor” operation and the slightly more expensive cost price.

3D Printing Developments

3D printing continues to go in the right direction to improve many different things in our life’s. This time 3D printing will attempt to help out the medical sector by printing breast implants. You are probably thinking “oh no, not fake boobs again!!” but do no rush into conclusions because TeVido BioDevices a company from Texas is primarily concentrating on the breast cancer patients who are undergoing surgeries.

Why 3D printed breast implants instead of the old method?

TeVido BioDevices has indicated that it will be used for cosmetic surgery as well, once the technology is developed fully. Apparently, it will be cheaper than the current breast implant surgery. Another reason why 3D printed breast implants would be better is because it will deliver better end-results. It will use the body fat of the patient and can even be used for nipple reconstruction. This means that in a way, breast implants would be natural.

Cheaper and natural breasts? This is almost as good, if not better than our pair of toners for the compatible Samsung MLT-D103L toner cartridges for the Samsung ml-2955DW printer which cost only £49.99. The 3D industry has to develop for a while before it will be able to achieve that type of cost price and the developments of this printer are still in early stages. The technology so far has only been an experiment on mice. Nevertheless the future looks bright because there has been some funding but despite receiving an award of 115,000 euro grant ReVido will need way more money than this and will be applying for another grant.

One of the co-founders of the TeVido company Laura Bosworth commented:

“We highlighted the idea that ours could be a platform and picked a target market. Once we get this working, it could be useful in a wide portfolio of applications. We’re focusing on filling a small tumour void as our first product”

How Does it Work?

The 3D printer works the same as the inkjet printer does, except instead of ink cartridges it uses protein, gelatine, alginate and specialised gel.

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Author: Donatas Ivaskevicius