If the cost is cheap enough and it is strong enough, I wonder whether it can be used in the osteotomies too? Surgeon designing cuts using 3d planning now anyway, would it be a stretch to ask Xilloc to print structural grafts for these locations too? Then you just need a binder to hold it in place while bone heals.
I agree with @overbiter, a perfectly shaped implant is just a revolution in this domain. There are other companies which do this already, of course, but not with a resorbable scaffold to my knowledge. I get the impression the "perfectly shaped" is still a work in progress, though, given the difficulty with soft tissue modeling.
@overbiter How did you glean that info about epibone? I had trouble finding out much about it. Why do you say "dark ages"? Do you mean in terms of how mature the product is? The big gain I see is that you don't have to wait for bone to form after implantation in the body. That's less time for infection, greater guarantee of resorption, reduced risk of rejection, etc I just don't know how they stimulate the bone segments to grow into each other and wonder how the vascular systems connect. My speculative mental model has always been that blood vessels grow in clots and then bone forms around it. Once the bone is already formed, well I don't see how that works or at least not well. But living bone with cells from your own body seems like a good thing.
