The article, ‘How 3D Printing Could Revolutionize the Future of Development’ written by Annie Rosenthal (2018) describes how 3D printing technology is being used to advance Global Goals and make an impact on our society, medical field and planet in the future. 

The article “The Importance and Potential of 3D Printing” by Heleana Neil was published on August 21, 2019 explores how Additive Manufacturing (AM) can widen the production of medicine, automotive industry and revolutionising space exploration as a result of development of technology. 

The article ‘Medical 3D Printing: How 3D printing is saving lives’ written by Sculpteo published in 2009 shows that 3D printing enhances the daily work of all medical professionals on how it makes a big impact in dentistry and customize prosthetics to suit and fit the wearer. 

The article "What Is Medical 3D Printing—and How Is it Regulated?" by Liz Richardson was published on October 5th 2020 by pewtrusts.org. This article highlights how medical 3D printing is utilized in healthcare, how FDA regulates the products, and what regulatory inquiries the agency faces and its importance in the medical industry.

These articles prove that 3D printing could make our life better in the future  as it makes dramatic changes to our society ,medical, automotive and even outer space. 

The article ‘How 3D Printing Could Revolutionize the Future of Development’ begins with a short definition of 3D printing which is also known as additive manufacturing and its potential in society, medical field, businesses, disaster and outer space. Next, this article states that 3D printing could help the countryside population by providing them with sufficient goods. Thus, 3D printing is able to support the fight against hunger and by providing enough food to the earth’s population using the cartridges that are easier to transport and could be stored for a long time. In addition, 3D printing is also able to reduce the rate of homelessness in the future as it could support home construction with the lowest cost so that everyone  can afford to own one. Furthermore, 3D printing is capable of transforming humanitarian response and modern medicine. It permits the workers and stakeholders to easily get the tools they need to recover from a disaster scene such as an earthquake by utilizing a 3D printer in customizing a pipe necessary for sanitation in a short period. Other than that, 3D printed artificial hearts can also be made by a 3D printer to save a patient’s life as well. Lastly, the author also mentioned that 3D printing could protect our planet in the future by converting the wasted materials into a new item. For instance, converting carbon dioxide into concrete and using algae-based filaments could reduce the energy necessitated for the printing process. As a result, our society would have efficient consumption and the sustainability of natural sources could be ensured for future generations. 

The article “The Importance and Potential of 3D Printing” talk about the benefits of involving 3D printing in various industries such as drug development, automotive industry and space exploration. As for drug development, 3D printing eases the production of drugs, it offers manufacturing collaborations and the medicines can fulfil patient’s demand at a lower cost. Second, in the automotive industry, more energy-efficient components were developed. The result of the weight of components that are produced by 3d printing is lighter than the one that undergoes traditional manufacturing process and it can be accessed from medium-sized companies. Lastly, AM is newly found in space exploration. AM allows the astronauts to recycle waste materials into reusable items which are low-priced.

The article ‘Medical 3D Printing: How 3D printing is saving lives’ shows that 3D printing brings many benefits in the medical field and  becomes quite helpful in lots of aspects.3D printing makes it possible to customize prosthetics hands, arms, and legs to help the one who depends on it to live a normal life just like how they dream of. It also has a low cost and can be fully adapted due to the patient's condition, to their routine and their disability compared to traditional prosthesis.3D printing also can help with bone refinement such as 3D printing for jaw reconstruction, breast reconstruction, knee realignment and 3D printed synthetic cartilage for knee replacement to save lives especially for the elderly because it was less risky than the traditional procedure. In recent years, 3D printing provides us with brand new possibilities from 3D printed braces to 3D printed dentures, dental implants and crowns. With this technology, the molding process can be avoided and the implant can be done faster. So, the dentist can save precious time for his patients. Moreover, 3D printing was used to create the real replicas of the heart, spine or any organ part of a patient that surgeons can use to practice on before performing complicated surgery. This technology also can be used to explain its complications to the patient. Thus, the patients will have a better understanding of what is actually happening and how the doctors will overcome the crucial part of the surgery. Aside from that, 3D printing also helps professionals from the medical field to discover new solutions and try new medical treatments. 3D printing can help treatment testing by using bioprinting which enables the printing of real human skin. In this way, it is possible to test new drugs without having to test it on animals. Lastly, 3D printing can be combined with cancer treatment. The printed model of a tumor can be tested for different drugs and the purpose is to eliminate the risky and unsuccessful drug testing on the cancer patient.

The article "What Is Medical 3D Printing—and How Is it Regulated?"  discusses that 3D printing is an additive manufacturing technique that creates three-dimensional objects by building successive layers of raw material such as metals, plastics, and ceramics produced from a digital file, rendered from a magnetic resonance image (MRI) or a computer-aided design (CAD) drawing. Manufacturing of 3D-printed medical products is based on a patient's imaging data. The FDA regulates the medical products made via 3D printing. Devices are classified into three regulatory categories, or classes. Class I devices are low risk; Class II devices are moderate risk; and Class III devices are life-supporting or life-sustaining. 3D printing presents unique opportunities for biomedical research and medical product development. Questions remain about how FDA should evaluate and regulate point-of-care manufacturing of 3D printed devices. The agency may need to define a new regulatory framework that ensures the safety and effectiveness of these products.

Everyone should read these articles to understand the potential of 3D printing in tackling the problems in the medical field, fighting the society issue and as a result modern lifestyles are yielded in the future.