Three-Dimensional Printing and Digital Flow in Human Medicine: A Review and State-of-the-Art

Abstract

The use of exponential technologies is changing how people live and interact; this has been called the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Within these technologies, 3D printing is playing a leading role, especially in health. In this context, this literature review aims to present the state of the art of 3D printing, its digital workflow and applications in medicine, and the advantages of its use in public health. Consequently, it describes the benefits for the patient and the medical team from a diagnostic stage, a brief history of its development, what is the digital flow when working with a 3D printer, what experiences of its use in medicine, and finally, how this technology used in medicine and public health can be part of the Digital Transformation in Peru.

Use of mouthguards in Latin American field hockey athletes during the ODESUR 2022 Games

“…taking advantage of emerging methods of high precision and low cost. 25,26 Integrating emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and Big Data) with sports dentistry represents a promising future. Latin America could take the first steps in this direction, starting with designing, and producing mouthguards using 3D…”

“…These mouthguards are personalized devices for athletes, allowing them to optimize their sports performance 1,3–7 . In addition, it could become a point of innovation, especially in developing a niche based on digital design and 3D printing of mouthguards, taking advantage of emerging methods of high precision and low cost 25,26 . Integrating emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and Big Data) with sports dentistry represents a promising future.…”

Veering to a Continuous Platform of Fused Deposition Modeling Based 3D Printing for Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Understanding the Effect of Layer Orientation on Formulation Performance

“…This idea has been centered around the idea of a personalized patient-based and on-demand supply of medications [ 1 ]. Three-dimensional printing or additive manufacturing can be defined as a process of fabricating 3D objects from a digital file in a layer-by-layer fashion [ 5 ]. Even though the process of 3D printing can be defined by its final product, multiple technologies work on different principles to manufacture the 3D objects [ 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”

Avaliação de diferentes técnicas e materiais para obturação em réplicas 3D impressas de dentes com reabsorção interna perfurante por meio de microtomografia computadorizada

“…Para simulação da reabsorção interna in vitro, os estudos têm confeccionado a cavidade de reabsorção mediante o uso de brocas (KELES et al, 2014;TOPÇUOGLU et al, 2015;KÜÇÜKKAYA et al, 2019 GAMARRA et al, 2022a;SALAZAR-GAMARRA et al, 2022b;EYZAGUIRRE et al, 2023), assim, torna-se necessário discutir alguns aspectos metodológicos empregados no presente estudo. Inicialmente, um incisivo central superior hígido foi submetido ao preparo biomecânico seguido de aquisição de imagens por microCT (GOK et al 2017;PETERS et al, 2021;DE-DEUS et al, 2022).…”

“…Inicialmente, um incisivo central superior hígido foi submetido ao preparo biomecânico seguido de aquisição de imagens por microCT (GOK et al 2017;PETERS et al, 2021;DE-DEUS et al, 2022). A partir do escaneamento, foi realizada a modelagem tridimensional, que se refere ao desenvolvimento de uma "representação matemática" de qualquer superfície de um objeto em três dimensões por meio de um software especializado (SALAZAR-GAMARRA et al, 2022a;SALAZAR-GAMARRA et al, 2022b;EYZAGUIRRE et al, 2023). A modelagem 3D da reabsorção interna perfurante foi realizada a partir do arquivo stl., obtido do escaneamento do incisivo superior, por meio do programa Blender® com auxílio de medições precisas do programa.…”