Modular design workflow for 3D printable bioresorbable patient-specific bone scaffolds: extended features and clinical validation.

ABSTRACT: A previously in-house developed patient-specific scaffold design workflow was extended with new features to overcome several limitations and to broaden its adaptability to diverse bone defects, thereby enhancing its fit for routine clinical use. It was applied to three clinical cases for further validation. A virtual surgical resection tool was developed to remove regions of the bone defect models. The minor cavity fill module enabled the generation of scaffold designs with smooth external surfaces and the segmental defect fill module allowed a versatile method to fill a segmental defect cavity. The boundary representation method based surgical approach module in the original workflow was redeveloped to use functional representation, eliminating previously seen resolution dependant artefac

SUBMITTER: Herath B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611564 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature