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.
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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.
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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