3D Printing the World's MOST COMPLICATED Medical Device

3D printing the most complex skull implant on the TRUMPF TruPrint 2000 metal 3D Printer. The history of skull implants is much more interesting than you'd think. Printing on the Trumpf TruPrint 2000 with titanium shows how far skull implants have come in 9000 years.

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[marc_frank]

i wonder how much RAM they needed to do the mesh in CAD

[pearshaped]

Designer: no extra cost to do it this way
Insurance: yeah we’re gonna round that up to $367, 000 and your first born child

[colinbarnes]

It's crazy how bio-compatible titanium is. The body sees it and just says "yeah, I can work with that"

[Thedestroyer_Lion]

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me"

[malcolmewenmackenzieross]

That skull repair looks like chainmail, that’s awesome.

[Bald_Vergil]

Everyday we get closer to nanomachines that harden in response to physical trauma.

[ceaser]

Now this will make for very interesting archaeological finds later in time

[vampvhs]

The fact that we’ve gone from plastic 3D printing to full on printing metal in just a few years of having 3D printing become widely used is, in itself, very metal

[Rabbit-the-One]

Even the common, bare bones basic desktop PLA printers have been revolutionizing casts to help set breaks. Printing had been really helping the medical field since the start. Making it lightweight, custom, fast, and cheap like nothing else before it!

[edgarmates]

My wife works for a company as a medical planner.

She uses the software to 3d print actual patients' bones and parts made out of powder in huge machines size of a small coupe that can print like 150 in a day.

They also do metal 3d printing with titanium their biggest machine is probably the width of a sedan.

Incredible stuff, helps out doctors like never before, especially for surgeries. It's fairly new technology a couple of years old.

Can't imagine what will be new in the next 10 to 20 years

[geekdiggy]

so it's like putting up garden fencing and watching the vines and stuff grow into and around it? that's pretty awesome man.

[monsieur_piyushsingh]

The problem I faced with these lattices is that the metal powder gets stuck inside the lattice pores and it's a tedious process to remove it

[mynameismatt]

I run a 3D print lab, people really underestimate what you can do with 3D printing.

[pyotrberia]

A practical use for 3D printing. I am honestly impressed.

[JostDraws]

Y'know the shit is good when the print rises out of the dust like an Ancient Artifact

[Mello_me]

jesus, 3D printing and AI are coming really far and I'm not even in my 30s yet

[tinyriss]

3D printing is the future for prosthetics and implants, the medical field SERIOUSLY needs to get on top of this growing process and might even benefit from having individual 3D printing rooms in hospitals for stuff like this!

[AngryHVACguy]

Big pharma will still be like “that’ll be $200, 000, your left nut and we’re increasing your premiums because we own the insurance companies as well”

[davidvenegas]

The beautiful thing about prices is that they can be completely disconnected from manufacturing costs. Even if this was cheaper to make they will still charge more since it's new.

[null-xfpd]

What's most amazing is titanium, like silver and a couple other metals, is bio available. Meaning it's not only non toxic, your body doesn't recognize it.. At all. Imagine a tree growing around a chain link fence.