The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) recently teamed up with Melbourne medical implant company Anatomics and a team of British doctors to implement a 3D printed titanium-polymer sternal implant for a 61-year-old British patient, Edward Evans. This achieved the world's first. Because before, these implants were generally made of pure titanium.
It is understood that this 3D printed titanium-polymer sternum was designed by Anatomics and then printed by CSIRO's Lab22 plant in Melbourne. It is worth mentioning that this is not their first cooperation. As early as 2014, they teamed up to print titanium kneecaps for an Australian cancer patient, and then in 2015, they were a Spanish cancer patient 3D. The titanium sternum and ribs were printed.
According to Paul D'Urso, executive chairman of Anatomics, the new sternal implants help to reconstruct "hard and soft tissue" in the human body better than previous pure titanium implants due to both titanium and polymer materials. ". Evans can be discharged only 12 days after surgery, and the current rapid recovery is the best proof.
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