title: Solid Free-form Fabrication Technology and Its Application to Bone Tissue Engineering.
abstract: The development of scaffolds for use in cell-based therapies to repair damaged bone tissue has become a critical component in the field of bone tissue engineering. However, design of scaffolds using conventional fabrication techniques has limited further advancement, due to a lack of the required precision and reproducibility. To overcome these constraints, bone tissue engineers have focused on solid free-form fabrication (SFF) techniques to generate porous, fully interconnected scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications. This paper reviews the potential application of SFF fabrication technologies for bone tissue engineering with respect to scaffold fabrication. In the near future, bone scaffolds made using SFF apparatus should become effective therapies for bone defects.
authors.affiliation: Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: Jin Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea ; Division of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.
authors.forename: Dong-Woo
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Cho
keywords: 3D printing; Bone tissue engineering; Fused deposition modeling; Selective laser sintering; Solid free-form fabrication; Stereolithography