ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN MEDICINE

Abstract

In Additive Manufacturing 3-D model data is used to make objects, by layer upon layer, using a machine. This is opposite of subtractive manufacturing methodology. It is also known as “rapid prototyping” and “3D printing”. This is akin to printing on a paper the same material over and over again several times till that printed matter builds up into a 3-D image. Actually in 3D printing process a whole object is converted into thousands of tiny little slices by a computer and then it is built from the bottom-up, slice by slice.