After 100,000 implantations, 3D-Printed Hips are going strong

100,000 Patients Later, The 3D-Printed Hip Is A Decade Old And Going Strong (GE)
You can fashion almost anything on a 3D printer these days, from the most intricate airplane parts to near-perfect replicas of the human skull. But back in 2007, few had printed an object that could be implanted into someone else’s body.
That is, until an Italian surgeon named Dr. Guido Grappiolo found a patient who needed a hip replacement. When the patient first came to him a decade ago, she had advanced arthritis and a titanium hip cup that doctors had already implanted with screws.
Grappiolo, of Fondazione L...