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Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2018; 31(06): 422-430
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1668113
Original Research
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Reproducibility, Accuracy and Effect of Autoclave Sterilization on a Thermoplastic Three-Dimensional Model Printed by a Desktop Fused Deposition Modelling Three-Dimensional Printer

Jean-François Boursier
1   Service de Chirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Pommery, Reims, France
,
Alexandre Fournet
2   Service de Chirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Université Paris Est Créteil-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France
3   Biomecanique et Biomateriaux Osteo-articulaires, UMR 7052, Paris, France
,
Jean Bassanino
1   Service de Chirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Pommery, Reims, France
,
Mathieu Manassero
2   Service de Chirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Université Paris Est Créteil-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France
,
Anne-Sophie Bedu
4   Service d'Imagerie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Pommery, Reims, France
,
Dimitri Leperlier
1   Service de Chirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Pommery, Reims, France
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18 December 2017

29 May 2018

Publication Date:
09 October 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Objectives The main purpose of this study was to determine the reproducibility and accuracy of a three-dimensional (3D) bone model printed on a desktop 3D-printer based on fused deposition modelling (FDM) technology with polylactic acid (PLA) and the effect of autoclave sterilization on the printed models.

Methods Computed tomographic images of the tibia were obtained from 10 feline cadavers, used to create a bone surface-rendering file and sent to the 3D printing software. Right and left tibias were each printed five times with the FDM desktop 3D printer using PLA plastic material. Plastic models and cadaveric bones were measured with a profile projector device at six predetermined landmarks. Plastic bones were then sterilized using an autoclave before being re-measured applying the same method. Analyses of printed model size reliability were conducted using intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) and Bland–Altman plots.

Results The ICC always showed an almost perfect agreement when comparing 3D-printed models issued from the same cadaveric bone. The ICC showed moderate agreement for one measurement and strong/perfect agreement for others when comparing a cadaveric bone with the corresponding 3D model. Concerning the comparison of the same 3D-printed model, before and after sterilization, ICC showed either strong or perfect agreement.

Clinical Significance Rapid-prototyping with our FDM desktop 3D-printer using PLA was an accurate, a reproducible and a sterilization-compliant way to obtain 3D plastic models.

Keywords

three-dimensional - desktop 3D-printer - polylactic acid - fused deposition modelling - accuracy

Author Contributions

Jean-François Boursier contributed to conception of study, study design, and acquisition of data and data analysis and interpretation. Alexandre Fournet, Mathieu Manassero, Anne-Sophie Bedu and Dimitri Leperlier contributed to conception of study, study design, and data analysis and interpretation. Jean Bassanino contributed to acquisition of data and data analysis and interpretation. All authors drafted, revised and approved the submitted manuscript.


 

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