I am looking for a medical grade plastic materials (transparent) which can be 3D printed for prototyping purposes?
- If it's in beads/filament form it can be printed by FDM
- If it's in resin form, it got to be photocurable for printing by SLA
Dear Mr. Choudhury,
What kind of materials you are used for 3D printing for medical applications depends from 2 things:
- It depends in what medical purpose you using 3D printer
- It depends on the type of 3D printer
You mentioned that you would use the following techniques for 3D printing: Fused deposition modeling (FDM) and Stereolithography (SLA).
I hope that the following links will be helpful in your project research.
For more details, I suggest you to contact following persons which are experts in field of Medical 3D printing materials:
1. Maciej Jarzebski (PhD in materials science Eng, PhD in biophysics)
- Assistant Professor
- John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- Contact Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maciej_Jarzebski
2. Professor Richard van Noort (BSc, DPhil, DSc )
- Professor of Dental Material Science
- Academic Unit of Restorative Dentistry
- School of Clinical Dentistry
- University of Sheffield
- Contact Link 1: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Noort
- Contact Link 2: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dentalschool/about/staff/van_noort
3. David Van Auker, Genesis Prosthetic Arts founder
- Contact Link: http://www.premiumprosthetics.com/prosthetics-pro-about-prosthesis/
Best regards,
Dragan Vuksanović
http://www.forecast3d.com/polyjet_datasheets/Med_610.pdf
http://www.stratasys.com/materials/polyjet/bio-compatible
http://www.stratasys.com/~/media/Main/Files/Material_Spec_Sheets/MSS_PJ_System_Matrix.ashx
https://www.professionalplastics.com/professionalplastics/content/downloads/PPL-12018-pageMarketingBrochure_06web.pdf
http://www.premiumprosthetics.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FllHRQchjbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CIxsUweljw
http://www.roechling-plastics.us/fileadmin/downloads/Tochtergesellschaften/REP-USA/Brochures/Medical-Grade-Engineering-and-High-Performance-Plastics-for-the-Medical-Industry-2012.pdf
Dear Mr. Choudhury,
You are welcome.
Best regards,
Dragan Vuksanović
Instead of directly printing the medical grade structure, you could also make a mould/cast from a regular print using one of the many easy and cheap dental silicons (e.g. https://www.dentalsky.com/elite-hd-light-body-fast-zhermack.html) and resins (e.g. http://www.masterbond.com/tds/ep42ht-2med - I don't know if this is a good value for money one), and or epoxy (e.g. http://www.jpkummer.com/en/epo-tek-adhesives?p=epoxy), PDMS (e.g. Sylgard 184 Silicone Elastomer), and field's metal (for creating complicated hollow flexible casts). That way you can also do some post-processing on the prototype before casting the final object(s).
Dear Tobias, I am sorry I never thank you for your reply! .. a very delayed Thanks!
Depending on the type of printer you are looking at you can always use Poly-med. They provide a wide array of biodegradable polymers with different degrees of stiffness. We have used a few in our lab for different applications and they are easily printed on any extrusion-based printer.
http://poly-med3d.com/
Thanks a lot @Jorge Belgodere for your reply and the link! May i know for what kinds of tissues you have already tried those polymers? Thanks
Sorry, for the late response. We got some samples from them and made test prints for tracheal stents and cartilage boats. Unfortunately, we never got around to actually applying cells to the prints but they were successfully printed! They have many different options that are medical variants of traditional filaments, such as PLA, PCL, PETG, etc. Deepak Choudhury
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