3-D Printer

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A puppy made famous because of his special set of wheels is headed off to help other dogs with similar needs. This story combines technology with a whole lot of cuteness!

Turboroo the chihuahua was born without front legs. His owners used toy parts to create the original prosthesis, that helped Turboroo's story go viral. it inspired others to improve on the design using a 3D printer.

So when the 3D printing store in Denver decided to create its own pet prostheses, it reached out to Turboroo's owners in Indiana for help.

"The possibilities with 3D printing are endless and that's what we love with the partnership with the 3D print store. They have the expertise in the design and we have the expertise in finding the animals for the designs," said Ashley Looper.

The 3D printing store also printed a prosthetic shell for a local tortoise named Cleopatra.

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[Peter1469]

You can make a gun with a 3D printer. :smiley:

[waltky]

Repairing injuries with 3-D-Printed Synthetic Bone Shows Promise...
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3-D-Printed Synthetic Bone Shows Promise for Repairing Injuries
September 28, 2016 - Three-D printers can make just about anything — even synthetic bones.


The material, called hyperelastic bone or HB, stimulates new bone growth when grafted to a bone injury site, and its developers say it is perfect for use in developing countries because it is inexpensive and quick to create. HB is unlike other man-made bone material, which is brittle and hard to work with, or human bone grafts that sometimes don't take hold. Its biomaterial is made up of minerals found in bones and teeth, and a polymer. The resulting sheet is both highly elastic and strong, and it can be shaped into various sizes and thicknesses, then cut and folded in any number of ways to be sutured for a tight bone graft.


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Hyperelastic Bone Being 3-D-printed Into Forms, Absorbing Liquid, Demonstrating Elasticity

Stem cells are overlaid on HB, which acts as a flexible scaffold. The body readily accepts the highly porous, implanted material, through which new blood vessels form and grow. No growth factors are used to stimulate healing. In experiments with animals, HB melded into surrounding tissue in just four weeks, fusing to spines in rats and repairing a skull defect in monkeys. The work is described in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Many applications

Ramille Shah, a professor in Northwestern University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, helped develop the technology and sees many applications for it. "Because of the versatility and properties and ability to print hyperelastic bone in different forms, anywhere from large sheets or hollow or dense structures to simple or complex structures, we envision this material to be used in a variety of orthopedic applications, from fine fractures to sports medicine injuries — as an example, [ligament] or rotator cuff injuries, where soft tissue-to-bone healing is very important — and also different cranial-facial defect applications," Shah said.


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This photo series shows how custom-sized synthetic sleeves can be snugly stretched around, cut and sutured to a soft tissue, such as human cadaveric tendon, facilitating arthroscopic repair of an anterior cruciate ligament or replacement surgery.

Co-author Adam Jakus said there are a number of advantages to using hyperelastic bone, which is very inexpensive to make. "Production-wise, [it's] very tailorable, very fast," he said. "And then you have this material that pops out [of the 3-D printer]. You don't have to do any further processing of it. You really just need to wash it and sterilize it and package it, and then it can be used."


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Properly scaled, anatomically correct parts, such as a human mandible can be designed, 3-D-printed and washed to rapidly produce a ready-to-implant object. Final image shows 3-D-printed mandible next to an adult cadaveric human mandible.

Because it doesn't require refrigeration, Jakus thinks HB is ideal for use in the developing world, "where you can just ship it way ahead of time, have it on the shelf until it's needed, rather than having to create a complex biomaterial that needs to be heavily refrigerated or frozen. In most of these cases in the Third World countries, those types of facilities might not be accessible." The authors see hyperelastic material being used in children to repair bones and disfiguring injuries that are socially isolating. Because the polymers already have the approval of U.S. regulators, scientists hope to make hyperelastic bone available for use by doctors within the next five years.

http://www.voanews.com/a/three-dimensional-printed-synthetic-bone-shows-promise-repairing-injuries/3529087.html

[Peter1469]

You can make weapons too.

[OGIS]

You can make weapons too.

You can make anything, actually. Twice, in this thread, you've mentioned weapons. What is your point? Do you think 3D printing should be banned technology?

Because that always works so well....

[Peter1469]

You can make anything, actually. Twice, in this thread, you've mentioned weapons. What is your point? Do you think 3D printing should be banned technology?

Because that always works so well....

No.