Progress of 3D printing bioceramic on artificial bone scaffolds

Abstract

Bioceramics are the ideal artificial materials of the bone scaffolds to repair the bone defects next to the traditional metal materials. The combination of additive manufacturing and bioceramics provides the enormous possibilities to achieve the customized and personalized scaffolds with more complex structures for the personalized therapy. Nowadays, the bioceramics scaffolds prepared by the additive manufacturing show the great prospects, but meet the problems of poor mechanical strength and single biofunction. To improve the mechanical properties and expand the biological functions of the bioceramics scaffolds, the influence of the slurry/powder system, debinding and sintering process, composite materials, and structure design on the mechanical properties of the bioceramics scaffolds was concluded and analyzed in this paper. The progress of the multifunctional bioceramics scaffolds was summarized from two aspects of drug release and cancer treatment. The research status of bioceramics scaffolds by additive manufacturing in vivo was also introduced. Finally, the development of bioceramics scaffolds by additive manufacturing was prospected

Keywords

• bioceramics
• 3d printing
• bone scaffolds
• mechanical properties
• multi-biofunction