Russian Company Looks to Bring 3D Printed Casts to Market

[Eddie]

It's been the same way for decades. If you break an arm, a leg or a finger, doctors usually will put a plaster-based cast on that broken bone, holding it in place to allow it to heal for 6 weeks or so. Now, one Russian company has come up with a way to 3D print casts, and then form them to a patient's arm via heat. Read and see more about this process at http://3dprint.com/43103/3d-printed-cast/

[awerby]

There are already heat-formed thermoplastic materials used to make custom immobilizing devices for broken limbs. It doesn't seem necessary to go through all that scanning and 3D printing to make something flat that would be heated and formed around the patient's limb. If the open design is all that you get from all that, then simply die-cutting the thermoplastic in a range of sizes would save a lot of time and be more cost-effective.

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com

[rickeycurry]

How would i go about contacting them?
I tried their contact page on their web page but it does not work?