The development of personalized medical demand from the perspective of dental 3D printing

In recent years, 3D printing technology has often attracted the attention of the medical industry. The reason is that each patient's body shape and physiological condition are different. The flexible production mode of this technology is quite suitable for the medical industry which highly needs personalized application. This is the advantage of 3D printer. Let's look at the application of 3D printing tooth model.

Take the manufacturing of false teeth as an example, and give why a false tooth was so expensive in the past? The reason is that everyone's tooth structure is different. In the past, it was necessary to open the mold to make a false tooth, but it can only be used by one person after opening the mold, so the cost of a false tooth would be more than 10000 yuan.

If 3D printing technology is used, only the dentist needs to use 3D scanning function to obtain the patient's tooth structure, and then the denture can be manufactured using 3D printing technology; However, the cost of dentures can be significantly reduced after the removal of the mold opening procedure.

Take orthodontics as an example. The cost of the dental model produced by the light-speed 3D printing is less than 10 yuan, and it is an indispensable precision prototype for the manufacturers of invisible dental sets. The cost of traditional dental mold manufacturing mode will be as high as thousands of yuan. It can be seen that 3D printing technology will have certain advantages in the medical field in the future.

In addition to applications such as dentures, even "drugs" can be produced using this technology in the future. In fact, many doctors and medical institutions today emphasize the importance of "precision medicine", and the concept of precision medicine is to provide the most appropriate treatment for each individual through various patient information.

Because each person's weight, height and other physiological conditions are different, the required dose of drugs is bound to be different; However, because today's pills and tablets are all large-scale production and manufacturing models, under the condition that doctors dispense the same drugs, everyone will get the same dose, which will cause some people to take more dose, while some people will take less dose. In the future, if we use 3D printing of everyone's drugs, we can achieve the effect of "accurate printing".

So far, 3D printing is still dominated by niche industries with light service weight and special manufacturing. For example, the manufacturing of space shuttle and national defense industry, the number of such applications need not be too large, but the value it can produce is high.

Borui exhibition believes that 3D printing technology will promote the development of personalized medical needs, whether it is dental correction and repair, cosmetic surgery, or clinical surgery, can receive more benefits from 3D printing. This is why 3D printing has been favored by the medical industry since its birth.