The first time I heard about 3D printing’s medical application in China was in 2013, when the orthopedics department of Peking University Third Hospital, a top hospital in China, announced promising results of a clinical trial using enhanced titanium implants produced by a 3D printer.

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Since 3D printing can virtually produce implants in any shape as a digital model instructs, 3D-printed implants match better with the bones around them than traditionally manufactured ones, which are usually geometric patterns and cannot attach to bones firmly without additional cement, screws or fixing plates. In 2016, […]

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