Additive manufacturing is the focus of attention of the healthcare, aerospace, automotive, defense and manufacturing industries due to its advantages such as not requiring a large number of machinery and equipment required in traditional manufacturing methods, reducing waste materials, shorter production time, easy production of parts with complex geometries and reducing the workforce became like that.

Co-Cr dental infrastructure samples produced with 3D Metal Printer

In order to bring this new technology to the infrastructure of our university, with the production of biomaterials and advanced engineering materials using the "Selective Laser Melting Method", which is one of the additive manufacturing technologies,  The infrastructure project titled “Production of Biomedical and Advanced Engineering Materials by Selective Laser Melting Method” submitted by Assoc. Dr. Temel Varol to the KTU-Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit (BAP) was accepted and with the supported project budget, Karadeniz Technical University Medical Device Design and Production Application and Production “Selective Laser Melting” device was added to the infrastructure of the Research Center (METAM).

Views of the produced dental infrastructures (Co-Cr) after sintering

As of October, the installation and training process for the "Selective Laser Melting" device within METAM has been completed and the production of metal dental infrastructures has begun.