3D Medical Printing

   Engineering and Medical development are interconnected and the stats show that in the near future Medical 3D Printing will give solutions that 20 years before no one could imagine the result. The list of objects that already have been successfully printed show the potential of this technology. Printed tissues with blood supply, low costs with prosthetic parts, biodegradable devices for delivering bone cancer medicine, tailor made electronic sensors that can detect oxygenation, heart strain, temperature, and acidic acid measurements that can detect blocked arteries. Printing also patient specific model parts could prepare doctors for surgeries reducing surgery times. Cornell University has printed a heart valve with a combination of alginate, smooth muscle cells and valve interstitial cells to control the valve stiffness. At Princeton University they printed a super collagen ear built-in electronic components for super human hearing. 

   Furthermore with a 3D Printer have bound chemicals to a ceramic powder creating scaffolds that promote the growth of the bone in any shape. At University Medical Center in Utrecht the top portion of a woman's skull was replaced from 3D printed plastic scull implant. Least but not last the printing of the skin on the wound of burn victims fabricating the number of the skin layers that  they fill the skin made a huge progress in synthetic skin. 

   Last and the most important is the 3D printing of liver cells that could function more than 40 days gives a positive meaning for the future evolution for printing live solid organs such as liver, heart and kidney. Engineering and Medical research are definitely interconnected in a way that could boost our lives in the future.