The growing demand for bone tissue for research, modeling, and the study of pathologies clashes with access limitations to natural bone, because of its high cost or the limited storage capacity due to its fast degradation. This project will facilitate the design of new bone models with a high level of biorealism and will allow real access to personalized medicine.
Once they complete the design, the 3DBBT consortium will go on to manufacture the synthetic bone tissue using high-resolution 3D printing, with a process of gradual light polymerization that will allow controlling the different degrees of hardness of the manufactured piece. Thus, generating a model with the highest degree of biomimetics in relation to the patient’s biological bone tissue. The resulting biocompatible bone biomaterial will have the same biomechanical properties as a human bone, the same ones as the patient’s human bone.
Dr. Juan Crespo, member of the project’s leader team, explains the details of 3D Bone Biotec (Phygital Bone) in the next video.
