Challenges and Perspectives in the Use of Additive Technologies for Making Customized Implants for Traumatology and Orthopedics

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The development of personalized medicine throughout the world is linked with advances in basic sciences such as genetics and biochemistry. This relates primarily to the creation of technologies for targeted highefficacy treatment of cancers. The potential for fast and accessible individualized preparation of medical devices, medicines, and even organs has appeared with the application of 3D printers to medicine. Could the personalized approach to making osteointegrated implants for traumatology and orthopedics lead to the development of hightech products based primarily on additive technologies? And would customized implants be able to improve the care of patients requiring surgical treatment? Answers to these questions require close interaction between surgeons, healthcare administrators, materials engineers, and technologists. And even if we gain an understanding of the needs, implementation of projects of this type will involve legal and economic conditions whose complexity could well become a barrier to their introduction.