3D printing services- New frontiers
You must have seen a coffee espresso machine. What does it do? It has a store of coffee and milk powder, a stream of steaming water is mixed with the milk and the coffee and bingo your coffee is ready. With a little change you can also have soups, tea, herbal tea, and iced tea, cold coffee or lemon tea. You can make all the above drinks by just changing the raw materials which usually numbers about four or five with ingredients like sugar, milk, salt and steaming hot water remaining common. Could there be such a personalized machine which can produce pills and medicines which are unique and custom made for a particular person?
Researchers have almost got success with the development of 3D printing service for prescription tablets. This 3D printing service for prescription tablets will produce pills which are suited for a particular person and will be containing dyes in the form of raw materials. What are the offshoots of 3D printing services? Firstly it will considerably reduce the cost factor since it will not require huge manufacturing units to manufacture different tablets. Instead a singly 3D printing machine can make a completely custom made tablet for the patient.
3D printing prescription tablets will also benefit the poor countries to extend the health services to the remotest corners of the country. Kiosks of 3D printing tablet machines can be installed and controlled by a central nodal point where the Doctor will prescribe the medicines for patients. This process will be particularly useful to geriatric patients who often suffer from multiple ailments and would have to take a variety of pills to keep their condition stable. With this technology, he will have to take a single tablet with all the ingredients.
Cost is an important factor since tablet manufacturing process will require a blister machine or a strip making machine. Further the active ingredients in a tablet are very small and the rest is filling materials. There is also a factor of the expiry of the drugs. In the 3D printing service, since the tablets are made instantly and the raw materials do not have any expiry, the problem of fall in efficacy is also not there. Packaging and transportation is also not required. The service of the Doctor is also optimized since he will only have to sit at a place and prescribe medicines which will be made at the press of a button. This is particularly important in third world and poor nations were the services of a Doctor are few and spread wide apart.
Since 2001 EMS has grown to become one of the premier providers of 3D scanners, product design and rapid prototyping services, 3D scanning and 3D printing service. With almost a decade of experience in providing high quality service and products, we have helped clients across a variety of industries build and manage their ideas and bring them to life. EMS is based in Tampa, FL and has offices in Atlanta, GA and Detroit, MI.
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