South Windsor’s Oxford Performance Materials said it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its 3-D printed facial implant.
The implant can be custom-printed for each transplant patient using MRI or CT scan images. OPM prints the implants using its proprietary powder formulation, which are similar to bone and support bone attachment.
OPM received similar approval early last year for a cranial implant. The company said that the two implants could be combined into one for certain complicated cases.
Biomet Inc. will be the exclusive global distributor for the new implant. Biomet also distributes the cranial implants.
