Bond3D enables the printing of personalized PEEK spinal cages - 3DPMN

Bond3D, a institution with patented technology that enables the accumulation of functional parts from high-performance polymers, has precocious made important advancement successful maturing its technology to people high-strength PEEK parts – with comparable properties to PEEK components that are injection molded oregon machined. The institution has present partnered with Invibio Biomaterial Solutions to alteration the improvement of the adjacent procreation of PEEK-based spinal cages.

The aesculapian instrumentality manufacture uses PEEK for semipermanent orthopedic, spine, trauma, and cardiovascular implants. The quality of PEEK to present objective and economical benefits successful aesculapian devices has led to implicit 15 cardinal patients receiving PEEK implants, and Bond3D’s exertion volition catalyze the improvement of further solutions successful aesculapian devices by allowing the instauration of high-strength, porous implants that licence bony ingrowth and summation instrumentality fixation, successful summation to enabling the accelerated printing of patient-specific implants.

CT representation of a spinal cage printed by Bond3D – the PEEK implant is not disposable (contour marked by the yellowish dashed line). It is translucent for the X-ray oregon CT-scan, but the graft worldly is visible. The fusion tin truthful beryllium assessed by artifact-free CT/MRI imaging. Source: Bond3D.

“One of the large opportunities for porous implants is successful the tract of spinal interbody fusion devices which are utilized to dainty spinal problems successful implicit a cardinal patients each year,” said HenkJan van der Pol, CTO of Bond3D.

When designing an interbody fusion device, the tendency is to nutrient devices that let for fusion to beryllium assessed done artifact-free CT/MRI images. Reducing the imaginable for cage subsidence, by producing implants with a modulus akin to earthy bone, is besides hugely important, successful summation to including highly porous regions with the close functionality to promote bony ingrowth. Therefore, determination is simply a request to make much precocious solutions than the existent procreation of porous titanium cages – which person challenges related to imaging and stiffness.

Now, Bond3D has established the indispensable capabilities to alteration aesculapian instrumentality companies to plan highly porous PEEK cages that conscionable biomechanical and biocompatibility requirements needed for FDA approval. The last steps towards FDA submission are being taken successful concern with a US-based spine institution – supported by a masterfile that volition facilitate consequent aesculapian OEMs to bring antithetic designs to the market.