**6. Conclusion**

3D printing has become a very useful and potentially transformative tool in a number of different fields, including medicine. It is an emerging technique with a variety of medical applications such as surgical planning and training, implant design, biomedical research, and medical education. There is an enormous potential of the technique and in the near future growing utilization and development of new applications in the fields of individual patient care, as well as academic and research activities will occur.

Researchers continue to improve existing medical applications that use 3D printing technology and to explore new ones. 3D printing provides a new didactic approach to learning when applied to medicine. The opportunity to prospect this paradigm shift in knowledge that occurs in the transition from 2D to 3D enables doctors to learn more inductively through the 3D modeling as a learning tool and improve patient's care.
