3D printing artificial organs - Dr Antonia Pontiki at Ada Lovelace Day

Find out how 3D printing technology can be used for vital healthcare. NOTE: This talk contains graphic medical images.
3D printing shows great potential not just for customised healthcare solutions but also for prototyping and research. It is already being used to manufacture equipment, develop anatomical models for medical education, surgical planning and training, create prostheses and 3D bio-print tissues and organs. Studies have reported that the benefits of using 3D printing in healthcare include the education of patients by explaining their pathology, customised medical instruments, improved surgical planning leading to higher precision during surgery, and reduced intraoperative bleeding and operating time.
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Dr Antonia Pontiki is a teaching fellow in biomedical engineering at King’s College London. Antonia teaches undergraduate courses and is also a researcher in the Department of Surgical & Intervention Engineering. Her research interests include chest wall reconstruction for cancer patients, 3D printing, artificial organs, biocompatible materials, and surgical simulators.
Antonia completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2022 where she investigated the use of 3D printing in thoracic surgery. She is currently working with undergraduate and postgraduate students on the development of surgical simulators for training and practising surgical interventions, including chest wall, urological and head & neck simulators, in an effort to address the ethical and financial implications of using animals or cadavers in medical education.
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[@paulwolf3302]

Wow. This is the kind of content I want to see from the Royal Institution. Sometimes of the speakers promoting unprovable pseudo science, but this looks like a real technology.

[@tarlcabbot2551]

Please, more detailed presentation on this. Regardless of the cost!!

[@wh5080]

Fascinating research!!!!!

[@muzikhed]

Excellent explanation on a very interesting topic of huge importance.

[@dizbeliefdanbackhouse5807]

This is amazing

[@zhaovincent3531]

We are a factory that produces cold gel organs to help many medical students practice surgery, and we can also customize organs according to the actual situation of patients for doctors to practice before surgery. Very good!

[@dubiousName]

Thanks, really interesting

[@joe2certi]

lovely talk 🗣️

[@iRiang]

Hey , Royal institution Please upload full video please ²

[@LocalExperimentalistUK]

Hello Earthlings 🖖

[@2CSST2]

You are not an actual alien

[@LocalExperimentalistUK]

@@2CSST2 your an actual Earthling

[@qbarnes1893]

Interesting indeed, if not slightly condescending in its delivery...

[@ZoonCrypticon]

Sorry to say, but I am underwhelmed of the method. First you digitalize CT and MRI voxels into a 3d structure, but afterwards only print a 3d plastic model to use it for obtaining a silicon mold, that later is used during the surgery to fill it with a "Palacos" bone cement and implant this piece. Why don´t you 3d print a ceramic piece, that will be sintered in the oven and sterilise it prior to final use in the surgery ? The outcome would be better, smoother and with less fissures, cracks and potential microbial contaminations.

[@ExtantFrodo2]

The worst is when she states that 3d printing actual organs is still years away. They can be printed right now in the microgravity of an orbiting manufacturing station.

[@christopherdewet2836]

​@@ExtantFrodo2 We have ready access to orbiting microgravity stations? That's what she means... We are still years away. Maybe we should 3D print a brain for you.

[@naklovic]

She is so beautiful

[@eboy-]

The warning about the image of an open chest being unsafe to view during a medical presentation is ridiculous.

[@chemquests]

I appreciate it, because I can’t stand seeing stuff like that.

[@nullp0inter]

Another elizabeth Holmes Watson , over promised hyperloop

[@himanshujaiswal5]

I am a first 😅

[@val_val_]

You happy now?

[@alexandrustefanmiron7723]

How about first doing a proper steak (and not some indescribable paste) that I can eat and after that we might think about real living organs!

[@dubiousName]

Go watch cooking shows instead of science if this is the kind of reaction you write

[@drgeetchadha]

Wow this was soooo underwhelming!!! The current state of "clinical" 3D printing and it's applications are wayyyy ahead of what was presented.

[@ye333]

There will be a period when such artificial organs are kind of functional but not as good as real ones from healthy people. Guess what will happen?

[@ExtantFrodo2]

People will get those things to tide them over until they can make better ones?

[@pattheitguy]

For the love of all things holy, sacred, and medical, please stop calling this 3D printing. It is fabrication, and it's been around a lot longer than the kiddies equating it to real 3D printing. If you keep calling it 3D printing when it's really fabrication, then go back and start calling everything that was fabrication 3D printing. You can't have it both ways.

[@Kargoneth]

Additive manufacturing via selective material deposition.

[@gaiustesla9324]

All about money, DISGRACEFUL!

[@dubiousName]

Tell us how it's all about money …

[@gaiustesla9324]

@@dubiousName How much does a heart cost?

[@gaiustesla9324]

@@dubiousName How much does a doctor cost?

[@gaiustesla9324]

@@dubiousName How much does a surgeon cost?

[@gaiustesla9324]

@@dubiousName How much do the rights to the patents for using these technologies cost?

[@ShuoreBangla]

Not really interesting

[@dubiousName]

Like you

[@lil_mocha3772]

you're kidding right? how are you so jaded and dull that an amazing field of science is uninteresting? can you even fathom what this means in the coming years? probably not who am I kidding lol.