Miracles continue at Michigan Medicine, where the University of Michigan is using 3D printing to aid patients receiving customized medical implants and applications and where 3D printed tracheal splints have also helped to save the lives of infants and young children.

1. Saving Lives: 3D Printing
Using New Applications for Medical Innovation
Glenn E. Green, M.D.
Kyle K. VanKoevering, M.D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

3. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)

4. Tracheobronchomalacia

6. “New workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the
potential to revolutionize the way we make almost
everything.”
2/12/2013, State of the Union address

7. “We need to think smarter about areas where our
technological superiority – and nobody comes close –
gives us an edge. This includes 3D printing, artificial
intelligence, and cyber-warfare.”
3/27/2016, Trump’s first major foreign policy
initiative (Center for National Interest)

8. 3D Printing: the next revolution

9. What is 3D Printing?

10. Teleporting medical devices

11. Precision and Customization

12. Temporal Bone Tegmen Dehiscence

13. 3D Model

18. Ongoing Clinical Trial

19. Facial Mass identified before birth

22. Complex geometries

24. Hamlet

25. Tracheobronchomalacia

26. Original Computed Tomography Data
Set

27. Design-based 3D-Printing

29. 3D Reconstruction

30. Our Team
Funded by:
•R21 DE022439 (NIDCR)
•NIH 2UL1TR000433-06
•P30-DC05188 (NIDCD)
•FD0003787 (FDA)