04. A Journey from Dentistry to Entrepreneurship with Dr Rui Coelho

A Journey from Dentistry to Entrepreneurship with Dr. Rui Coelho Dr. Rui Coelho is a Leader of a group investigation of Medical Device Class III. He is the founder of BoneEasy, a Portugal based company that manufactures Patient-specific Implants across the world only for the craniomaxillofacial region. Learn more about 3D Printing on www.surgeonsin3dprinting.com.   Subscribe    Apple I  Google I  Amazon Music I Spotify I Gaana   Resources:   Join the Facebook community Surgeons in 3D Printing!   Visit the website: www.surgeonsin3dprinting.com.   Three Takeaways Basics of Anatomy & Physiology are the foundation for designing. The team approach makes life easy while large-scale implementation. Spread and use technology for patient benefit.   Sponsors: Reconstructive Healthcare Solutions Private Ltd.   Show Notes   Today’s AudioTraining: A Journey from Dentistry to Entrepreneurship.   [1.09] -  Dr. Rui Coelho shares his journey from being a dentist to entrepreneurship.   His reason to develop individualized bone graft. Beginning of printing Titanium using basic principles of Facial Anatomy.   [2:45] He shares the beginning of his journey which started with a literature study. He also shares how they first started with chrome-cobalt printing and then took over Titanium as printing material. He also discusses the problems accompanied by Metal Printing.     [5.47] Dr. Rui shares his transitioning phase when he visited various manufacturing units to learn what was available and then transitioned to his own company.   [7.28] Dr. Rui shares key points on :   Creating a design to match muscle attachments. Getting completely versed with software to start innovation and team building. Keeping the anatomic principles as a basis to create designs.   [10:32] Dr. Rui did not find software as a difficulty and found a team-based approach that worked better for him. He shares the presence of his company in various parts of the world and says that Bone Easy is a company that makes medical devices of class II B, implantable medical devices.    [15:06] Dr. Rui shares various materials that can be used for printing metal. He also describes the importance of a clinical picture and then tracing the result forward to find the final result.     [16:50]   Dr. Rui shares insights on his team-building approach which involves engineers working as per the principles of anatomy and physiology.     [17:28]   Dr. Rui shares his expertise as a professional. He shares his role where at times he advised fat