...L. Shor; S. Güçeri; M. Gandhi; X. Wen; W. Sun, Ph.D. Bone tissue engineering is an emerging field providing viable substitutes for bone regeneration. Freeform fabrication provides an effective process tool to manufacture scaffolds with complex shapes and designed properties. We developed a novel...

... for the design and fabrication of stereolithographic surgical guides useful in alveolar reconstruction with mandibular block bone grafts. The integration between medical imaging techniques and SL was achieved. The surgical guides built with a SL machine were used as tools for surgical operations...

... that the amount of interference is sufficient to create a secure assembly, but not so great as to cause excessive stresses or failure of the individual components. In this work, we study interference fit connections in an assembly of human (cadaveric) cortical and cancellous bone, i.e., an allograft, used...