Fabrication of Scaffold for Bone Regeneration by Taylor Made Stereolithography

Abstract:

Recently, regenerative medicine attracts very wide attention. Regenerative medicine is a method of medical care for the purpose of recovery of the lost human organic function, resulted by an accident or diseases. It is considered that there are three important factors in the regenerative medicine, cell, scaffold and cell growth factor. In this research, the talyor made stereolithography method was used to fabricate a highly precise biodegradable scaffold which is suited for individual bone defect part. The sterolithograph, one of rapid prototyping methods, is a method of modeling by using optical hardening resin irradiated by ultraviolet laser. We have used the optical hardening resin by mixing biodegradable β-tcp as the bone formation material. At present, confirmation of detailed fabrication conditions of stereolithography are in proceeding. Experiments by using osteoblasts cells are intended.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 86)
• Pages: 70-74
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.86.70
• Online since: September 2012
• Authors: Kousei Kumagai, Teruo Asaoka, Katsuko Furukawa, T. Ushida
• Keywords: PCR, Rapid Prototyping (RP), Scaffold, Stereolithography, TCP, Tissue Engineering

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DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2005.03.016