Precise pathways to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds for soft tissue engineering are evolving rapidly with advances in 3D printing techniques and synthetic methods to generate polymeric biomaterials. Compared to traditional porous scaffold fabrication methods including salt leaching, gas foaming, and phase separation, 3D printing affords significant flexibility in the design of complex, patient-specific scaffold geometries, and control over internal pore and strut size, porosity, and pore interconnectivity, all of which are important to physiological response to the scaffold at the wound site. Selection of materials with appropriate resorption time and mechanical properties are dritical to the design process. This presentation will highlight our recent efforts in this area.

3D-printable, resorbable elastomers for use in soft tissue engineering

2019 Fall National Meeting

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