Application of a comprehensive methodology for the development of personalized bone implants: Exemplification through three cases

This work presents a compilation, through three real cases, on the application of a comprehensive methodology that describes the processes and materials that can be used for the design and manufacture of personalized bone implants and surgical planning. To do this, doctors and engineers generate test anatomical models to study and simulate the operative approach, surgical cutting guides to reduce the time of the intervention, and the bone implant itself to correct or overcome certain pathologies. In all the cases treated, the physical and mechanical properties of the structure, bone or not, replaced or studied, have been taken into account.