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. 2016 Feb 15;6:21704. doi: 10.1038/srep21704

Table 4. The fabrication cost of a PLA screw-like scaffold with a low-cost 3D printer in a rabbit ACL reconstruction model.

Items Amount Unit price Cost
PLA filament 1g $31/kg $0.031
Power consumption ≈0.005 kw·h $0.24/ kw·h ≈ $0.0012
Labor cost 3 min $5/h $0.25
Others (machine loss, etc.)     $0.2
Total cost     ≈ $0.5