{"id":171502,"date":"2025-11-11T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=171502"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:51:15","slug":"3d-printed-bone-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/industrial-transformation\/3d-printed-bone-implants\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering to Save Limbs: 3D-Printed Implants Aim to Regenerate Bones in Diabetic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mexican researchers are developing a new technology that helps replace or regenerate damaged bones in diabetic patients<\/strong>, potentially preventing the loss of limbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are 3D-printed bone scaffolds<\/a>, designed with special structures and materials that mimic the behavior of real bone. They replicate key characteristics of bone tissue, such as shape, porosity, and stiffness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This line of research began over five years ago when a team worked with a patient who had already undergone an amputation. The goal was to develop sensor-equipped, comfortable prosthetics, explains Erick Guadalupe Ram\u00edrez<\/a>, a researcher and director of the Innovation and Transformation program at the School of Engineering and Sciences<\/a> at the Monterrey campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when Josu\u00e9 Garc\u00eda<\/a>, a mechatronics engineer trained at Stanford University and Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, decided to tackle the problem much earlier\u2014at the stage when diabetes begins to damage bone tissue and the risk of limb loss<\/strong> becomes real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mexico, the leading cause of amputations is diabetes<\/a>. People with the disease are 15 to 30 times more<\/a> likely to lose a limb compared to those without it. Infections from ulcers and soft tissue damage are among the various causes that can lead to amputation, as are issues with bone tissue, such as fractures that fail to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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