Reportedly, two years later, the seal bodies will be commonplace.
This forecast was presented by consulting company Gartner. In three years the market for medical 3D printing will exceed $1 billion, and 3D printers will use in each third of the operation. Overview of the future market has prepared the Wall Street Journal.
According to Gartner forecasts, in two years 10% of the population in developed countries will have a body or wearable device created using 3D printing. Technology will be used to create prostheses and implants, and surgeons will use 3D printing in every third operation.
At the moment, the market for medical technology, 3D printing is estimated at $660 million, but by 2020 it will rise to $1,21 billion, predicts IndustryARC. Medical industry promotes technology and will have an impact on cloud and Internet technologies, said Vice-President of research division of Gartner Anurag Gupta.
Additive printing was developed in 80-e years, but only now, thanks to hardware developments and improved it has become more available. 5 years ago 3D printers Stratasys only worked with 1-2 materials and colors. Now they can simultaneously print using 6 materials and create 360 000 combinations of textures and colors. It allows to reproduce accurate copies of real objects, including bones and soft tissues.
Medical institutions have begun to experiment with new technology. At the Mayo Clinic last year only printed 500 objects that are used to prepare for surgical procedures. However, while this process takes time. Thus, the creation of a copy of the pelvic region of the patient doctors have gone 60 hours. But clinic specialists say that this training reduces the time for the operation itself.
Many hospitals in the US have opened our own laboratory of 3D-printing and working with it companies, including Stratasys , 3D Systems and Formlabs. Connect and large corporations. General Electric is developing 3D printers and systems for creating three-dimensional models of real objects. Johnson & Johnson is working to ink for printing objects of different materials.
Spanish scientists used 3D printers to print human skin, which is used in the treatment of burns. In the United States in March last year, went on sale epilepsy meds individual dosage, which was created on a 3D printer.
Company Organovo Holdings prints tissue of the kidneys and liver to test drugs, and Johnson & Johnson together with Aspect Biosystems is working on technology print a knee meniscus.
“High-tech” already wrote about the five scenarios for the application of 3D printing in medicine. Among them, the creation of individualized medicines and prostheses, rehearsal operations, Express to print medicines and, potentially, the seal bodies.
Some technologies are already applied in practice. Recently, the surgeons of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane (Australia) conducted the world’s first implant printed on 3D-printer frame in the tibia of a patient suffering from a serious form of osteomyelitis. And in August, doctors from the Changzheng hospital in Shanghai replaced the patient six cervical vertebrae, printed on a 3D printer prostheses.
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