A new method for 3D printing drugs: melting solidification printing process

COGGIOLA, VIVIAN N; REAL, JUAN PABLO; PALMA, SANTIAGO D

Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine

Future Medicine

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2020 vol. 4 p. 131 - 134

2059-4755

The potential of 3DP in the pharmaceutical field is enormous. 3DP simplifies the traditional manufacturing process by reducing the usual steps (grinding, wet granulation, dry granulation, compression, coating, etc.) and allows for the variation of the sizes and geometry of the tablets; and it also allows the combination of materials of different nature . Although this type of production cannot match the speed (it is 60-times slower) or the costs of large-scale production methods, the 3D printers? ability to produce different parts with enormous flexibility would allow the manufacture of pharmaceutical forms on demand, that is, to individualize drugs according to the needsof each patient, as well as it would allow combining different active ingredients (multidose tablets)