• Patients don’t have to wait a long time in order for them to get their organ transplant
• The cost of making a 3D printed prosthetic organ is much more affordable
• There is a higher survival rate of printed cells
• It offers high precise resolution
• There is a reduced need for donors
• They allow more drug testing to be done
• Very low risk of organ transplant rejection, as every body part will be created from a patient’s own cell
Advantages
There is a growing popularity of 3D printed models, here is a list of some advantages and disadvantages of having 3D printed prosthetics:
disAdvantages
• There will be moral and ethical dilemmas in the future
• Researching with 3D printed prosthesis has a high cost
• Prosthetics need to be precise and specific for them to work properly
• Connecting bioprinted organs to the human body is difficult to do