Diego Edwards¹*, Sebastián Bianchi², Juan Pablo Casas-Cordero³, Francisco Cornejo³ and Gerardo Zelaya⁴

¹Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery Department, Hospital La Florida-Clinica Alemana, Knee Surgery Department, Santiago, Chile
²General Practitioner, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
³Orthopaedic and Traumatology Resident, Hospital La Florida, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile
⁴Hospital La Florida-Clinica Las Condes, Knee Surgery Department, Santiago, Chile

*Corresponding Author: Diego Edwards, Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery Department, Hospital La Florida - Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Sports Medicine, Santiago, Chile.

Received: November 24, 2022; Published: December 13, 2022

Abstract

Three-dimensional printing (3D) is an additive manufacturing technique, which through digital models of a patient, obtained through different techniques such as computed tomography (CT), allows the manufacture of custom made and specific structures for each patient, in real size, by using plastic materials.

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Citation

Citation: Diego Edwards., et al. “Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing Technology in Traumatology: is it the Present or the Future?”.Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 6.1 (2023): 113-114.

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Copyright: © 2023 Diego Edwards., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.