Large-scale manufacturing of precisely patterned flexible soft tissue implants with high porosity
Amal Shabazz, Alexandra P Christensen, David Garvey, Mike Pallotta, Sahar Vakili, Stephen Farias, John P Fisher · 2026
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Description
Amal Shabazz and colleagues present a 2026 paper on making soft tissue implants with 3D printing at large scale. The implants rebuild the nipple and areola, the small raised center of the breast, after breast surgery. They were printed in a certified clean facility using two soft medical resins.
Printing gave open, spongy implants with more than 70 percent empty space. One resin matched the softness of real tissue well. The other kept fine shapes more exactly across repeat runs. The implants could also be filled with a gel that carries helpful biological cues, with filling above 97 percent. The team sets pass marks for future batches.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amal Shabazz, Alexandra P Christensen, David Garvey, Mike Pallotta, Sahar Vakili, Stephen Farias, John P Fisher |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41609 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |