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This article provides annotated bibliographies and recommendations on 3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering. It explores recent applications of 3D printing and innovations in 3D printing from optics to organs. The article highlights the potential benefits and future research areas in the field of 3D printing.

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PORTFOLIO_1: Annotated Bibliographies and Recommendations on 3D
Printing
Journal 1: 3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering
Mikołajewska, E., Macko, M., Ziarnecki, Ł., Stańczak, S., Kawalec, P., & Mikołajewski, D.
(2014). 3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering.
Annotation:
The article states that 3D printing is a relatively novel technology. It revolutionizes scientific
researchers under clinical practice and health sciences. More extensive use of those kinds of
techniques helps in developing various personalization and customization of different medical
products. The article helps in understanding the extent to which the variably available scopes in
engineering are getting exploited. For this, the authors used their ideas, observations and studies. In
current clinical applications, 3D techniques are covering many areas. This includes learning,
customized automated models, team and individual training and various other scientific researches.
The articles help in understanding problems of 3D printing require different research, analysis of
related technologies and various dedicated clinical guidelines. The reason of this is that these kinds
of solutions are related an to long-term disabilities and high disorders like communication or sensory
disorders.
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Further, the article demonstrates its recent applications in the areas of rehabilitation engineering.
 It includes surgical planning like various 3D scan data that is applied for producing
proper physical models, prostheses and implants.

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 The authors show that there are necessities of future researches in these areas. Those
sectors include an enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration of medical staffs, ethical rules, law
regulations and strict clinical.
 Better integration of different 3D printed solutions is required with current
approaches.
At last, the writers mentioned that a careful threat analysis and evidence-based medicine
approach is necessary for avoiding various possible secondary changes.

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Journal 2: Innovations in 3D printing: a 3D overview from optics to organs
Schubert, C., Van Langeveld, M. C., & Donoso, L. A. (2014). Innovations in 3D printing: a 3D
overview from optics to organs. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 98(2), 159-161.
Annotation:
The 3D printing is the method in which manufacturing of materials like metal or plastics get
deposited to one another in various layers. This is done by producing a three-dimensional object.
The authors showed that the processes have been contracting with conventional in-based printers.
Till date, it is seen that 3D printing is used in the field of engineering for creating various
engineering prototypes. Despite that, current developments in printing materials have helped 3D
printers to create objects comparable with prior manufactured elements. On the other hand, 3D
printing with traditional printing has got the efficiency to help mass customization of goods over a
large scale and possess the relevance in medicine. In the current literature, the authors demonstrated
the ability of 3D printing in revolutionizing manufacturing similar to the way in which printing press
revolutionized the traditional printing.

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Recommendations:
The 3D printing can be applied to medicine in various ways.
 First of all, the process has been potentially used to make any organ.
 Secondly, through retrieving seed materials from the tissue of patients, the host rejection
versus graft versus from the heterologous tissue sources are avoided.
 Furthermore, the authors helped in understanding that the today’s pharmaceutical companies
can get replaced with various databases of drug compounds with the help of 3D printing.
Moreover, it must be reminded that currently, the effect of 3D printing is has been small.
However, it has the potential to develop in a highly beneficial technology.

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References:
Mikołajewska, E., Macko, M., Ziarnecki, Ł., Stańczak, S., Kawalec, P., & Mikołajewski, D. (2014).
3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering.
Schubert, C., Van Langeveld, M. C., & Donoso, L. A. (2014). Innovations in 3D printing: a 3D
overview from optics to organs. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 98(2), 159-161.

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