Disability Transformation to Capability by Advancement of 3D Bioprinting prosthetics

Abstract

Millions of people with disabilities suffer from the shortage of their daily life functions due to the lack of prosthetics that are related to their high costs and the short life of the traditional prosthetics; most of them lost their work opportunities and experienced many bad psychological effects. The traditional prosthetics are made from metals or composites and offer the users limited functions, whereas the printed prosthetics by the additive manufacturing process offer them highly durable and functional parts, especially when printed from bio materials, which made a real big forward step in the prosthetics manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is the technique of building the product layer by layer from the material filament with good stiffness and strength, which was a reason to shift from mechanical prosthetics to regenerative and intelligent systems.