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.

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Three Takeaways

1. Basics of Anatomy & Physiology are the foundation for designing.
2. The team approach makes life easy while large-scale implementation.
3. Spread and use technology for patient benefit.

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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