2020
Overview
Medical applications of 3D printing use additive manufacturing to create objects tailored to individual patients and clinical needs, building structures layer by layer from digital models derived from imaging or design data. The technology is used to produce anatomical models for surgical planning and education, customized prosthetics and implants, surgical guides, and, increasingly, tissue-engineering scaffolds and bioprinted constructs. Because each object can be matched to a specific anatomy, 3D printing supports personalized, patient-specific solutions across surgery, dentistry, orthopedics, and regenerative medicine. Within the journal's scope on 3D printing and additive manufacturing, medical uses are a prominent theme, spanning the materials and structures designed for the body. Published work includes reviews of 3D-printed bone scaffolds and biocompatible materials, the coupling of 3D bioprinting with organ-on-a-chip technology to advance biomimicry, and additive manufacturing as a new fabrication technique. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to the medical applications of 3D printing, including biomaterials, scaffolds, and bioprinting approaches for healthcare.
Research published in this journal
3 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
2018
2018
How this research is being cited
The 3 articles above have been cited 10 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2025 · Springer tracts in additive manufacturing
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2023 · IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
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2019 · Applied Sciences
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2019 · Materials
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2019 · Journal of Materials Science
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2019 · Journal of 3D Printing and Applications
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2019 · Journal of 3D Printing and Applications
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2018 · Research & Development in Material Science
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Medical Applications of 3D Printing, linking to each citing work.