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3D Printing of the Ceramic and Composite Materials for Medical Applications

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 5497

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NRC “Kurchatov Institute”-IREA, Bogorodskiy val str. 3, 107076 Moscow, Russia
Interests: zirconia; ceramic; digital light processing; stereolithography; solid state chemistry; scintillator; garnet; zinc oxide

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Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics - Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Interests: additive manufacturing; DLP 3D printing; colloidal processing; zirconia ceramics; perovskites; heterogeneous catalysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to publish your works in this Special Issue devoted to the current state of additive manufacturing technologies of biomedical materials. State-of-the-art 3D printing technologies offer unique opportunities to manufacture complex-shaped advanced materials with tailored design for medical applications. Creation of these high performance materials requires insights to relationships of the process parameters, properties of the initial materials, and microstructure and quality of the final product.  Works which aim to focus on the development of 3D printing technologies of dental materials, ceramic implants, and scaffolds are welcomed.

Dr. Petr S. Sokolov
Dr. Dmitrii Komissarenko
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • ceramic Implants
  • dental Materials
  • DLP 3D printing
  • additive manufacturing
  • microstructure processing
  • microstructure properties

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Development of Patient Specific Conformal 3D-Printed Devices for Dose Verification in Radiotherapy
by Antonio Jreije, Lalu Keshelava, Mindaugas Ilickas, Jurgita Laurikaitiene, Benas Gabrielis Urbonavicius and Diana Adliene
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(18), 8657; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188657 - 17 Sep 2021
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In radiation therapy, a bolus is used to improve dose distribution in superficial tumors; however, commercial boluses lack conformity to patient surface leading to the formation of an air gap between the bolus and patient surface and suboptimal tumor control. The aim of [...] Read more.
In radiation therapy, a bolus is used to improve dose distribution in superficial tumors; however, commercial boluses lack conformity to patient surface leading to the formation of an air gap between the bolus and patient surface and suboptimal tumor control. The aim of this study was to explore 3D-printing technology for the development of patient-specific conformal 3D-printed devices, which can be used for the radiation treatment of superficial head and neck cancer (HNC). Two 3D boluses (0.5 and 1.0 cm thick) for surface dose build-up and patient-specific 3D phantom were printed based on reconstruction of computed tomography (CT) images of a patient with HNC. The 3D-printed patient-specific phantom indicated good tissue equivalency (HU = −32) and geometric accuracy (DSC = 0.957). Both boluses indicated high conformity to the irregular skin surface with minimal air gaps (0.4–2.1 mm for 0.5 cm bolus and 0.6–2.2 mm for 1.0 cm bolus). The performed dose assessment showed that boluses of both thicknesses have comparable effectiveness, increasing the dose that covers 99% of the target volume by 52% and 26% for single field and intensity modulated fields, respectively, when compared with no bolus case. The performed investigation showed the potential of 3D printing in development of cost effective, patient specific and patient friendly conformal devices for dose verification in radiotherapy. Full article
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Surgical Repositioning of an Inverted Developing Incisor Assisted by 3D Technology
by Mi-Hyun Seo, Hoon-Joo Yang, Jeong-Joon Han, Ik-Jae Kwon, Hoon Myoung and Soung-Min Kim
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(11), 4827; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11114827 - 25 May 2021
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Permanent central incisor impaction is very rare, and causes of impaction include adjacent supernumerary teeth, odontoma, and trauma. Surgical repositioning is a treatment option for teeth with ectopic eruption pathways. In this case report, an inverted developing maxillary central incisor was surgically repositioned [...] Read more.
Permanent central incisor impaction is very rare, and causes of impaction include adjacent supernumerary teeth, odontoma, and trauma. Surgical repositioning is a treatment option for teeth with ectopic eruption pathways. In this case report, an inverted developing maxillary central incisor was surgically repositioned at the initial stage of root development. Three dimensional (3D) virtual images were acquired using computed tomography, and a replica was produced by LCD-based masked stereolithography 3D printing. A resin for 3D printing was approved as a medical device and used as a 3D printing replica. Further, 3D technology has been found to be useful for successful tooth repositioning surgery. Full article
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