Solidscape Presents 3D Printing System for Dental Labs

Solidscape, a leading manufacturer of high precision 3D printers for direct manufacturing applications, recently announced the launch of the 3Z™ LAB 3D wax printer — designed and specifically developed for dental labs. The aim of the 3Z™ LAB 3D printer…

New Dental App – 3D Printed Porcelain Crowns

Sirona, a worldwide leader in dental tech, is offering local dentists a relieving solution – which can not only saves valuable time for patients in general, but more importantly, it also shortens the period of inevitable agony while waiting for…

Medical Application: 3D Printing a New Nose

The suffering caused by the loss of a body part is inestimable. However, the loss of a nose, is possibly one of the most distressing. Jane Frances from Changing Faces backs this up explaining that it is the most socially…

Organovo – The Company Behind The First Commercial Bioprinter

Organovo is a company that specialises in bioprinting – the laboratory engineering of tissue. Bioengineering is also the focus of several other universities and research instates around the world, but unlike some of these companies working with printed live tissue with…

3D Printed Medical Solution from 3D Systems

3D Systems has developed a new generation of custom-made hand brace device, which is set to launch before the end of the year. The announcement of this medical application of 3D printing follows the company’s recent acquisition of Bespoke Innovations™.…

3D Printing Medical App – Reconstructive Knee Surgery

Following the article about the use of 3d printing to help people with foot and ankle issues, another interesting orthopaedic application has been reported by OPS (Objet Printer Solutions), UK earlier this week about a new surgery that could potentially…

New Micro DSP 3D Printing Solution for the Hearing Aid Market

EnvisionTEC unveiled its latest 3D printing solution for the hearing aid market — the Perfactory® Micro DSP (Digital Shell Printer) — at the EUHA Congress in Frankfurt, Germany. The Micro DSP is the smallest 3D printer in size from EnvisionTEC,…

3D Printed Aid for Orthopaedic Needs

Customisation is one of the primary advantages of 3D printing technology because it adds significant value to the process without incurring additional costs. This is an attractive proposition for many custom consumer goods, but another sector where it makes a…

A Round Up of 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Developments at the TCTLive Conference

The TCT Live 2012 Conference on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing turned out to be a milestone for me as it was the last one that I will be involved with organizing — after 16 years there were some very…

3D Printed Microstructures Produced in Seconds

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new process that can fabricate microscale 3D sturctures out of soft biocompatible hydrogels. The aim of this new process is to develop better systems for growing and studying cells,…