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3D Printing Used To Make Organs? 

2/22/2016

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You have cardiac heart disease and is going to have a surgery. Usually, you repair your damaged heart with parts either from other people's donations, or your personalized parts. Recently, doctors at the Harvard Medical Center, are now using 3D printed models of organs to use in surgeries for their patients. Printed parts have been used into human bodies for example like: in dental purposes (implants), skull repairing, and even facial reconstructions according to Houston Chronicle. Engineers and researchers are trying to also replicate closely similar cells, blood vessels, and tissues. There has been constructed parts that humans are still living with for example lie: artificial ears, knee cartilage, and even solid bones. Doctors think that the 3D printer will become a very useful tool that will come in handy later in the future when 3D printings at a low financial cost. Doctors and researchers have even designed and created their own custom body parts. According to the article, "I really think the 3-D jet printer is transformative," says Daniel Jones, chief of minimally invasive surgical services at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "It's going to change the way doctors talk to patients, how they plan surgeries and how they do surgeries. The sky is the limit in terms of applications." ​I think that this is very true because NOT ONLY will ill patients be getting donated organs from other people, but they will also get artificial 3D printed parts that work just as well.

PictureThis is a 3D Printed ear used for a transplant.
[Basically, how a 3D printer works, is that it takes the digital 3D model (from a computer), and layers the dimensions by creating coating layers or material that they use, which is plastic to create the three-dimensional item. It doesn't always have to be necessarily plastic, but 3D printers have the ability to print items made of materials like: metal and rubber. Click here to learn more about 3D Printers!] 
Recently, a team in the Harvard Medical Center, has developed to make 17 children's hearts successfully with 3D printers that they could relevantly use for surgical repair. Since a child's heart is small, I bet this wan't that difficult with working, compared to larger hearts. "For most people, it is an 'aha' moment," says Mahmood, who is researching the possibility of printing patient-specific valve parts that would be safe to use in surgeries. "What I foresee is that . . . we will be 3-D printing everything we operate on before surgery. Instruments, grafts and materials will all be customized and will be printed on-site," according to the article.

Thoughts, Ideas and Opinions

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I think that using 3D Printing is a great idea for organ transplants in surgeries because this discovery has led to even more advanced technology that doctors are considering in using. This is also a great way because if a patient from a  doctor needs a customized organ, and they can't find a donation, then the surgeon can easily make a digital heart, customize it how it needs to be needed, and then print it up. I find this new technology as a much efficient and faster way for surgeons to use something valuable, and impact that on a person's life. 3D Printing USED to be a science-fiction thing that no person thought that would be an actual possibility. Now, it is somewhere where we are getting into the point where we doubted ourselves. This new form of technology is being put into the right hands because the patients that surgeons and doctors see, are almost putting an end to their lives, but with a 3D printed organ transplant, it can completely save them. (I'm wondering, if the 3D printed organ going to be used ONlY temporarily, while the surgeons are finding donations, or will the printed organ actually be what the people use for the rest of their lives?) This is a great and respectful way for 3D printing to be used, and I hope to see more positive ways that this technology is being used in. 

19 Comments
Katherine
3/21/2016 01:13:33 pm

Honestly I wonder if the 3D printer can make more things for us, humans like making new body parts. But what happens if the material can infect the patient? Can it harm them?

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Miguel I.
4/2/2016 11:19:10 pm

Well, to answer your question after some time of research, 'But what happens if the material can infect the patient?' the answer is that there isn't a high chance for the material to damage the way the human body works, because there isn't quite very close compact with the particular type of plastic (BPA), instead of where it is IN the body.

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Kevin Hernandez
3/21/2016 01:21:06 pm

I really like the way you have so much information.The text seems like it was written by a college professor. I like the way you try to fix all your mistakes. love your stuff man. Keep on your good work! :)

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Miguel I.
4/2/2016 11:20:43 pm

Thank you Kevin, for your positive comment. I appreciate the fact that you like the content that I am putting on my website! Thanks again!

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Ralph Adedeji
3/21/2016 01:21:14 pm

I am really surprised by how a 3-D printer can print actual human organs. I am curious to see if this will be a reality in the future to stop people from borrowing organs from others to start new transplants. This could be a new amazing thing that could revolutionize the world for ever. Do you ever think if you became a doctor that you would use this 3-D printer for your uses? And how would you perfect it to make it safe for people to use?

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Miguel I.
4/2/2016 11:27:39 pm

I am also as curious on this 3D printing subtopic as you are. Actually, I think that if I were to become a doctor sometime later in the future, now that I am thinking about it, I WOULD use this 3D printing method for body transplants because for example, let's say that if a donor gives their own organ (when they die), what if it is NOT accurate enough in size and conform with the rest of the body that needs the particular organ. I mean, right now, since this 3D printing method is getting carried-on to the medical field, I think that for right now, since this form of advanced technology is still processing and growing, the decision is yet STILL up to the doctor and the patient to choose.

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Daisy
3/21/2016 01:23:45 pm

Well in the beginning you said that you would normally get a heart donated. But now you can get a plastic heart. BUT will the heart pump blodd?

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Miguel I.
4/2/2016 11:05:19 pm

Actually, the 3D printed organ will work similar like a tunnel because we know that in the basic concept of a tunnel, something travels and goes through it, now this is the same thing as the blood in the body. With the plastic heart, for instance, it will be like a tunnel, helping the blood flow/pump throughout the rest of the body.

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Alan
5/5/2016 06:46:26 pm

Hi this cool and fun

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Miguel I.
5/5/2016 06:49:35 pm

Thanks for the positive comment!

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Alan
5/5/2016 07:04:42 pm

Your welome 😀

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Miguel I.
5/5/2016 07:06:17 pm

Thanks! 😉

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cesar
5/6/2016 12:24:04 pm

your website is allsome

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Miguel I.
5/9/2016 01:15:46 pm

Thanks Cesar, I appreciate your positive comment!

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Miguel I.
5/10/2016 09:24:30 pm

Stay tuned for further interesting article posts!

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jerson
5/13/2016 09:01:09 am

what gave you this insperachon?

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Miguel I.
5/14/2016 11:52:47 pm

Jerson, what gave me inspiration to do this article post, or this entire website in general, was to try to inform my viewers, and the public about real world advanced technology that is being implemented into the lives of many societies and people. I want to inform them by writing descriptive and providing multi-media features, so what my visitors are doing is interacting and engaging with the topic.

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Anthony
5/13/2016 09:18:31 am

That is so cool

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Miguel I.
5/14/2016 11:53:41 pm

Thank you Anthony, for the positive comment!

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