Over 2 million bone grafting procedures are performed annually worldwide nearly half of them in the EU, being the 2nd most transplanted tissue after blood. Bone defects caused by trauma, osteoporotic fractures, infection, tumour or cyst resection pose a great clinical and socio-economic problem. The project will helps with this by offering a innovative solution that is easy to use, that offers synchronization between bone formation and graft resorption, that allows to have a vascularized and stable in volume bone formation and that has no side effect by being synthetic.
By the end of the project, and with the end of the clinical trial, we expect to have a fully validated patient specific solution that is efficient, safe has good performance and can be offered with a reasonable price.
In the long term, our ambition is to deploy a decentralised model where hospitals around the world are able to print their own patient-specific implants. This opens the potential for cost reductions benefiting hospitals, their patients and the national health services