OrthoPediatrics, Belgium Firm Partner On 3D Printed Cutting Guides
News Release
WARSAW — OrthoPediatrics Corp., a company focused on pediatric orthopedics, has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with 3D-Side S.A., a Belgium-based software manufacturer of patient-specific 3D printed cutting guides.
This commercial agreement grants OrthoPediatrics exclusive distribution rights of the 3D-CUT-OSTEO osteotomy guide in the United States’ leading pediatric hospitals in addition to certain international markets in the future.
3D-CUT patient-specific guides, designed from CT or MRI images, assist surgeons in performing corrective and bone tumor resection osteotomies. The single-use guide technology enables accurate deformity or tumor corrective procedures.
OrthoPediatrics’ president and CEO David Bailey commented, “The 3D-Side technology complements the OrthoPediatrics’ pediatric limb deformity implant and biologic offering, and increases exposure in the pediatric oncology market, where many of the most challenging orthopedic cases involving tumor resection require a full complement of solutions including implants, biologics and patient-specific devices. We are excited to enter this relationship with 3D-Side to provide our pediatric orthopedic customers access to the 3D-CUT products.”
Founded in 2006, OrthoPediatrics is an orthopedic company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics. As such it has developed the most comprehensive product offering to the pediatric orthopedic market to improve the lives of children with orthopedic conditions. OrthoPediatrics currently markets 37 surgical systems that serve three of the largest categories within the pediatric orthopedic market.