3D printing is fast finding its place in healthcare as an unbeatable manufacturing technology for creating unique products, and is already helping to raise standards of care and provide the best patient experience in many areas. It can be widely used in additive processes, for example to prepare for surgery, speed up operations, produce necessary medical devices, develop new medical instruments and equipment, and improve the lives of people who need prosthetic limbs.

Surgical design: CT and MR scans can now be easily converted into 3D models, which can be printed and practised on patient-specific organ replicas before surgeons perform complex operations. And the availability of biocompatible, blood-contact materials allows the creation of case-specific, sterilizable surgical aids, such as fitting drill templates.

Medical instrumentation: speed up your medical device development process with multiple 3D printing per day! With additive manufacturing, you can produce end-use, functional parts, small batch, biocompatible medical devices faster and more cost-effectively than traditional methods. 3D printing enables agile, customised, low to medium volume production up to injection moulded surface quality, so you can develop, enter the market and produce at lower cost and ahead of your competitors.

Customised prostheses, orthoses: 3D scanning and 3D printing can be used to create limb prostheses, cast replacements or, for example, insoles that fit the patient's body exactly. Additive manufacturing significantly speeds up the process of creating customized prostheses and orthoses, and can also create custom products that offer patients the same functionality as traditionally manufactured prostheses at a much lower cost.