Additive manufacturing role in production of patient-tailored implants from bone cement

Modern patient treatment methods introduce personalisation in every aspect, which consequently has a better prognosis and treatment process, as well as high-quality patient recovery. Today there are many available personalised treatment methods, cures, medical products, as well as direct organs or tissue production by 3D printing of stem cells. Because of the capabilities of additive manufacturing (AM) especially in the medical field, it become a very fast, efficient tool in personalised medicine as a method for the creation of models for pre-surgical planning, for creation of phantoms for medical procedures, for production of surgical guides, as well as for additively manufactured medical products such are implants or instruments. In this paper, there is an example of the successful application of AM for the production of the mould for the production of a patient-tailored implant from bone cement.