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Design and Fabrication of Implants for Mandibular and Craniofacial Defects Using Different Medical-Additive Manufacturing Technologies: A Review

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Mandibular and craniofacial bone defects can be caused by trauma, inflammatory disease, and benign or malignant tumors. Patients with bone defects suffer from problems with aesthetics, speech, and mastication, resulting in the need for implants. Conventional methods do not always provide satisfactory results. Most of the techniques proposed by researchers in the field of biomedical engineering use reverse engineering, computer-aided design (CAD), and additive manufacturing (AM), whose implementation can improve the outcomes of reconstructive surgeries. Several literature reviews on this particular topic have been conducted. However, they provide mostly overviews of AM technologies for general biomedical devices. This paper summarizes the use of existing medical AM techniques for the design and fabrication of mandibular and craniofacial implants, and then discusses their advantages and disadvantages in terms of accuracy, costs, energy consumption, and production rate. The aim of this study is to present a comparative review of the most commonly used AM technologies to aid researchers in selecting the best possible AM technologies for medical use. Studies included in this review contain CAD designs of mandibular or cranial implants, as well as their fabrication using AM technologies. Special attention is paid to PolyJet technology, because of its high accuracy, and economical efficiency.

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Miljanovic, D., Seyedmahmoudian, M., Stojcevski, A. et al. Design and Fabrication of Implants for Mandibular and Craniofacial Defects Using Different Medical-Additive Manufacturing Technologies: A Review. Ann Biomed Eng 48, 2285–2300 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02567-0

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