Medical 3D Printing and Personalised Medicine

Workflow and Principles for Precisely Designing a Custom-Made  Polyetheretherketone Implant Applied in Irregular Craniofacial Bone Defects

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  • (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital,
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China)

Online published: 2021-06-02

Supported by

the Program of Shanghai Municipal
Commission of Health and Family Planning
(No. 20194Y0033)

Abstract

Irregular craniofacial bone defects caused by craniofacial fractures always result in craniofacial bone  and contour asymmetry and should therefore be reconstructed. Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is an ideal substitute  for autologous bone grafts and has been widely used in craniofacial bone defect reconstruction. The precise design  of custom-made PEEK implants is particularly important to optimise reconstruction. Herein, the workflow and  principles for the design and manufacture of PEEK implants are summarised, and a protocol for the precise design  of an irregular craniofacial bone defect PEEK implant is presented. According to the method and principles, the  design flow was efficient and could be standardised, and design errors could be avoided as much as possible.

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JIANG Taoran (姜陶然), YU Zheyuan (俞哲元), YUAN Jie (袁捷), XU Liang (徐梁), DUAN Huichuang (段惠川), ZHOU Sizheng (周思政), CAO Dejun(曹德君), WEI Min (韦敏) . Workflow and Principles for Precisely Designing a Custom-Made  Polyetheretherketone Implant Applied in Irregular Craniofacial Bone Defects[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Science), 2021 , 26(3) : 404 -410 . DOI: 10.1007/s12204-021-2312-6

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