摘要 |
A method of manufacturing a bone substitute structure for reconstruction of bone material in a patient comprises the steps of providing data reflecting a cavity in a bone of a patient, defining and modeling a three dimensional structure corresponding to the cavity in the bone; and providing an individualized bone substitute structure corresponding to the defined and modeled three dimensional structure by combining calcium phosphate cement, growth factors and the patient's own un-coagulated blood. The data reflecting the cavity can be obtained by scanning the soft and hard tissue of the bone and generating digital data representing the bone cavity. The structure may made using computer-aided design and this may be linked to a rapid prototyping machine such as additive layer manufacture or three dimensional (3D) printer. |