Image: lenets tan/Adobe Stock In collaboration with Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, Singapore’s Osteopore has developed a PCL-based cage that stimulates regrowth of bone cells and is eventually replaced by the regenerated bone tissue.
Singapore-based Osteopore International has developed in collaboration with Maastricht University Medical Centre (UMC+) in the Netherlands a bioresorbable 3D-printed cage that prevents leg amputations in patients with severe lower leg fractures. The 3D-printed cage helps a patient regenerate new bone cells and has been successfully designed and implanted in its first patient in the Netherlands.
Manufactured in Singapore, and developed with Osteopore s proprietary 3D-printing and materials technology, the cage is made of biodegradable material and is customized based on a computed tomography (CT) scan of the patient s lower leg. This 3D-printed cage stimulates the patient s new bone cells to g