Forbes March 22, 2024
Patients who need a new knee, hip, ankle, or jaw might be surprised to learn that these off-the-shelf implants generally come in small, medium, and large. Like T-shirts, small, medium, or large rarely fits anyone perfectly. When it comes to implants, an imprecise fit can lead to poor outcomes and additional surgeries, which is why the demand for – and the market for – patient-specific, custom-3D-printed implants is surging.
“Over the last 24 months, we’ve really seen a big uptick in medical device firms’ demand for patient-specific implants,” says Daniel Crawford the founder of Axial3D, a start-up software company streamlining the process from patient scan data to patient-specific 3D model. “The industry as a whole is growing pretty aggressively when...
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