Recent studies have shown that novel processing and modeling techniques may be used to create patient-specific prostheses, artificial tissues, and other implants using data obtained from magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, or other imaging techniques. For example, customized prostheses may be fabricated that possess suitable features, including geometry, size, and weight, for a given medical condition. Many advances have been made in the development of patient-specific implants in the past decade, yet this information is not readily available to scientists and students. Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery provides the biomaterials scientist and engineer, as well as advanced undergraduate or graduate students, with a comprehensive discussion of contemporary medical implant research and development. The development of printed biomaterials is multidisciplinary, and includes concepts traditionally associated with engineering, materials science, medicine, and surgery. This text highlights important topics in these core fields in order to provide the fundamentals necessary to comprehend current processing and modeling technologies and to develop new ones.

CHAPTER 1: Surgical Cutting Simulation and Topology Refinement of Bio-Tissues and Bio-Object, Shiyong Lin and Yuan-Shin Lee, North Carolina State University Roger J. Narayan, University of North Carolina.- CHAPTER 2: Heterogeneous Deformable Modeling of Bio-Tissues and Haptic Force Rendering for Bio-Object Modeling, Shiyong Lin and Yuan-Shin Lee, North Carolina State University Roger J. Narayan, University of North Carolina.- CHAPTER 3: Computer Aided Process Planning for the Layered Fabrication of Porous Scaffold Matrices Binil Starly, University of Oklahoma.- CHAPTER 4: Cell Source for Tissue and Organ Printing, Tao Xu, University of Texas at El Paso; Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, James J. Yoo, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Yuyu Y. Yuan, Clemson University.- CHAPTER 5: Direct-Writing of Bio-Polymers for Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration.- Salil Desai, North Carolina A T State University, Benjamin Harrison, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.- CHAPTER 6: Precision Extruding Deposition for Freeform Fabrication of PCL and PCL-HA Tissue Scaffolds, L. Shor, E.D. Yildirim, S. Güçeri, W. Sun, Drexel University.- CHAPTER 7: The Role of Technology in the Maxillofacial Prosthetic Setting, Betsy K. Davis, Medical University of South Carolina Randy Emert, Clemson University.