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. 2024 Feb 23;10(5):e26641. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26641

Table 1.

Contribution of additive manufacturing in different medical areas during 2020, 2021, and 2022 [6].

Application area 2020 2021 2022
Prototypes 62% 62% 66%
Anatomical models 40% 30% 47%
Tooling and patterns 27% 28% 31%
I do not use AM/3DP 15% 23% 8%
Prosthesis 29% 21% 29%
Surgical planning 31% 20% 35%
Patient-matched devices 34% 18% 26%
Biofabrication 17% 15% 16%
Serialized devices 11% 13% 12%
Dental 16% 10% 23%
Active devices 9% 7% 10%