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Even though 3D printing has already made its presence felt in the field of medicine, the biggest impacts are just starting to take shape. Very recent experiments have used living cells to construct various components of the human body, and it’s only a matter of time before these results become commercially available. Currently, 3D printers are used to produce such things as customized prostheses from titanium or cranial plates from hard plastics. Stents used to prop open collapsed windpipes in infants have even been created from the biodegradable plastic polycaprolactone. Incorporating live tissue will take things to a whole new level, and the following examples show how this advancement is now seeing success in research laboratories.

Read more here: http://3dmasterminds.com/7-ways-3d-printing-is-disrupting-the-medical-industry/

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Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing!