Baby's life saved with groundbreaking bioresorbable splint made by 3D printer

[Ed Hagopian]

Because as much as I'm a big kid, and enjoy the things that go bang bang as much as the next. I'd rather design things that save lives then take them.

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130523-baby-life-saved-with-groundbreaking-bioresorbable-splint-made-by-3d-printer.html

[Jerry [HM]]

This was an awesome story!  Thanks for posting/sharing!

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[Have Blue]

Well, I certainly hope that nothing I design/build ever takes a life,
but I'm always thrilled to see new applications for 3D printing in any
field. I've actually helped out the University of Arizona with their
printing of bone scaffolds from PBT on their Stratasys machine, so I
certainly dig the medical applications as well as fun stuff that goes
bang bang.

[Ed Hagopian]

So I guess I've never asked this but what is your day job Mike? 

BTW I don't count your work on the AR-15 lower as Designing for Death, as I understand it as an engineering exercise, it could have been anything really.. Nor do I hold much malice toward Defense Distributed, as much as I see their work as a media grab more than anything. While my hippie / Maker upbringing finds them utterly distasteful, my inner libertarian demands they be allowed to be stupid. 

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[Pete Prodoehl]

I think that may be a conflict shared by many of our kind...

[Caitlin Jung]

Agreed.

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[Have Blue]

Just a mild-mannered IT guy.  I get enough flak for experimenting with 3D printing applications in gunsmithing that I generally have to make a point that my hobbies have no malicious intent - I don't want to see hobbyist gunsmithing become outlawed because people begin to view it with any sort of negative connotations.  As such, I grit my teeth when I see news stories about what I've done as 'the dark side of 3D printing' or comments like 'why can't this guy try to help save lives instead of taking them'.  It's disheartening to have a hobby that I enjoy deemed as inherently evil by so many people.

So yeah, I can bit a bit defensive on that point, sorry!

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[Matt Wittmann]

Don't worry mike a gun never killed anyone. Same as a bat never did the same. Yet people have no common sense. So its a looseing a battle.

Matt Wittmann

[Vishal Rana]

Well, bats turn people into vampires. Then people write terrible love stories about them. So you can't say that bats are completely harmless.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Matt Wittmann <mfran...@gmail.com> wrote:

Don't worry mike a gun never killed anyone. Same as a bat never did the same. Yet people have no common sense. So its a looseing a battle.

Matt Wittmann

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[Adam Cohen]

I just forwarded that story to my team at work.  I've been trying to get GE to seriously look healthcare applications of 3d printing.  I mean CT + Printing...its like peanut butter and jelly...

[Pete Prodoehl]

peanut butter and jelly?

We're in Wisconsin... tell them it's like beer and cheese.

But yeah, the medical industry should be leading the way on innovative uses of 3D printing.


Pete

[Have Blue]

I'm shocked that GE isn't already heavily into working with CT scan data for printing.  The 3D printer manufacturers tend to be kind of skittish about medical applications of 3D printing (liability being the huge concern), so it may fall more onto established medical companies to help push forward in that respect.

[Royce Pipkins]

I wonder if they might just print out practice parts. If some one needed brain surgery and the scan showed a challenge, maybe they could use the scan data to print out a practice head just to help ensure things go as expected during the real surgery.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner

[Have Blue]

I could have sworn that I actually came across an article or paper that discussed this specific use.  I've certainly thought about the technique myself when I have an expensive part that I need to do a machining operation on, but want a stand-in so I can prove out my fixturing and cutting passes.

[Adam Cohen]

On Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:17:54 PM UTC-5, Royce wrote:

I wonder if they might just print out practice parts. If some one needed brain surgery and the scan showed a challenge, maybe they could use the scan data to print out a practice head just to help ensure things go as expected during the real surgery.

I think 3d printing would be used heavily for pre-op planning if surgeons had it available.  GE does have an additive manufacturing laboratory at our Global Research Center in NY.  The only thing I've seen them work on so far is jet engine parts and ultrasound transducers. Still pretty cool. 

[Adam Cohen]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514656/a-more-efficient-jet-engine-is-made-from-lighter-parts-some-3-d-printed/

[Ed Hagopian]

So you scan the skull and the brain, print the skull in plastic, make a mold for the brain, make a brain out of suitably similar material like jello or whatever, leverage glass for an virtual overview of where the cuts needed to be...... Science... cuz you can't pray this shit up.

[the_digital_dentist]

Maxillofacial surgeons who do reconstructive surgery for facial trauma victims print out "before" models from CT scans and use them to plan surgery and select connectors and techniques to be used to rejoin bones. see:  http://www.itec-3d.com/3d_printing_medical.html,  http://icoms2013.com/topic-advances.html,  http://goo.gl/o7ImR,  etc.

On Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:17:54 PM UTC-5, Royce wrote: