Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2015, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (38): 6195-6199.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2015.38.023

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CAD model design for three-dimensional printing of tissue-engineered tooth scaffold

Zhang Jia-yu, Mi Xue, Liu Yi, He Hui-yu   

  1. First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • Contact: He Hui-yu, Professor, Doctoral supervisor, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Zhang Jia-yu, Master, Physician, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81060088; the Scientific Project for Supporting the Development of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, No. 201291173

Abstract:

 BACKGROUND: There are less reports on how to successfully build the internal spatial configuration of tissue-engineered tooth scaffolds.

OBJECTIVE: To find a way to establish a series of three-dimensional digital modes for tissue-engineered tooth scaffold, such as CAD spatial configuration and Standard Template Library (STL) files. 
METHODS: In order to get three-dimensional printing format of STL files, MICRO CT data of DICOM format were input into MIMICS and GEOMAGIC softwares, creating the outline of STL files. Then CATIA V5R17 software was used to create the three-dimensional digital mode of tissue-engineered tooth. Then, the overall model of the internal scaffold was obtained by arraying at the proper coordinates. Various overall scaffold configurations could be built rapidly by varying monomer configuration. The STL files of CAD model of three-dimensional printing tissue-engineered tooth were obtained by assembling the tooth outline mode and the internal scaffold.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The CAD model was constructed successfully, and this model could be directly used for three-dimensional printing rapid prototyping system to produce tissue-engineered tooth scaffolds. These findings indicate that the three-dimensional digital mode based on reverse engineering and positive engineering can be established, which can be used to quickly build a variety of internal spatial configurations of scaffold materials required for tissue-engineered teeth.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性;组织工程

Key words: Tissue Engineering, Computer-Aided Design

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