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Main article: 3D - printing in medicine
2016: Market size is $660 million
In September, 2017 data of Gartner on the market of three-dimensional printing in medicine were published. Most often on 3D-printers dental products are created.
According to the The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) edition with reference to the research Gartner, in 2016 world expenses on the medical products received by means of volume printing reached $660 million. About 34% of this amount were the share of tooth implants.
Sales of other implants printed on 3D-printers made 19.1% of total amount. Endoprosthesis replacement (13.2%) became the third most popular category. Besides, as it is possible to see higher in the chart, by 3D method - printings are created acoustical prostheses (8.7%), surgical instruments (8.3%), medical spare parts (6.3%), drugs (4.3%) and technologies of cultivation of fabrics (2.3%).
The vice president for the researches Gartner Anurag Gupta says that 3D - printing in health care "could have a revolutionary impact on the Internet and cloud computing several years ago".
One of the main problems on the way of mass implementation of similar technologies is the high cost of the printing equipment — from 10 to 400 thousand dollars. Besides, owners of 3D-printers should incur "the hidden expenses", the head 3D - GE Healthcare printings Jimmie Beacham says. The matter is that engineers should transform the digital pictures received from MRT-, KT- or the ultrasonography scanners to data which can be used for creation of volume model.
In article of WSJ one more problem — 3D is also called - printing takes a lot of time. For example, specialists of Mayo Clinic needed 60 hours to create on the 3D-printer basin model with a tumor of the patient.[1]
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