Author Archives: C3DPrintio

Asking adults with swallowing difficulties about ‘mealtime-related quality of life’: What does a good meal look like for you?

My name is Rebecca Smith. I am a speech pathologist and PhD candidate at UTS working with Professor Bronwyn Hemsley and Dr Lucy Bryant. I am examining swallowing difficulty and how it may impact on a person’s quality of life, participation, and inclusion. I am now putting the call out to people with swallowing difficultiesContinue reading “Asking adults with swallowing difficulties about ‘mealtime-related quality of life’: What does a good meal look like for you?”

What’s written in the peer-reviewed literature, about 3D food printing, that mentions swallowing disorders?

Any mention of swallowing disorders in 3D food printing literature was picked up in our systematic searches – we only sought peer reviewed publications that were full journal articles; the following references are based on a search of scientific databases up to June 2016. The search was updated for the publication of this journal article,Continue reading “What’s written in the peer-reviewed literature, about 3D food printing, that mentions swallowing disorders?”

An Appetite for the Future: 3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability

This project aims to identify ways that 3D food printing (additive manufacturing using real food in a device like a ink-jet printer) could be used to improve the visual appeal of puree meals for people with swallowing difficulty, who make up ~8% of the world’s population. This study will include people with and without swallowingContinue reading “An Appetite for the Future: 3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability”