Monday, 7 January 2019

Surgeons Successfully Implant World’s First 3D-Printed Rib – and They Plan On Doing Even More in the Future

In a world first, surgeons successfully implanted a 3D-printed rib into a hospital patient. The procedure, which was recently performed at Tokuda Hospital in Bulgaria, used an implant which was crafted out of an FDA-approved material called Nylon 680. In addition to being drastically cheaper than titanium, the material was used to make the rib […]

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