Tissue engineering or regenerative medicine approaches based on engineering cells and scaffolds into “spare-parts” promise to shape the future of reconstructive surgery and organ transplantation. To that end, recent work in our laboratory has developed innovative strategies for adapting low-temperature 3D printing technology to fabricate osteoconductive calcium phosphate (CaP) scaffolds for applications in preclinical small and large animal models of bone regeneration. This technology has translational potential in medical image-guided reconstruction of massive bone loss in scenarios involving extremity bone and craniomaxillofacial trauma or infections.
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