Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital and dental implant maker Alliance Global Technology will cooperate to ascertain a prognosis platform for 3D printing of medical implants on the hospital, the primary of its sort in Taiwan.
The platform, set to start operation by year-end 2019, permits communication between hospitals and makers to designed custom-made implants to particularly meet sufferers’ wants primarily based on diagnoses.
The platform can be initially used for treating oral most cancers sufferers for demonstration. The hospital will use CT (pc tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to seize photos of sufferers’ decrease jaws and, primarily based on picture reconstruction and modeling, accountable medical doctors will simulate surgical procedure to find out exact implants to be used to exchange the cancer-affected half to be lower off for restoration, the hospital stated.
ITRI stated its Factory of Intelligent Additive Manufacturing Medical Devices (FoiAM), established in Southern Taiwan Science Park in 2017, has obtained ISO13485 and ASTM F3001 certification and thereby can present testing and certification providers for native medical units and supplies suppliers.
FoiAM will initially undertake medical implant manufacturing for the brand new platform and Alliance Global can be accountable for administrative help with a objective to eventual take over manufacturing by organising a GMP (good manufacturing follow) manufacturing unit.
Alliance Global stated it has shipped own-brand Anker 3D-printed dental implants to China, East Europe and Southeast Asia.
