Cad/CAM System ( A point of view from a developing country)
Joaquin Oropeza M.
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Title:
Cad/CAM System ( A point of view from a developing country)
Creator:
Joaquin Oropeza M.
Date:
4/6/2001
Text:
Dear colleagues:
I read with interest the messages published abouth the CAD/CAM system during the last weeks.
I can recognize in most of the messages that economically the system has been very beneficial for many facilities. Taking two steps away from the original cuestion abouth what does the CAD/CAM system will be able to offer in the future,I wanted to subject the discussion the true options they exist to implement this system in the developing countries. We have to take into account that at least in countries like Mexico where the market of the prótesis is financed in 70% by institutions they are already of private attendance or of public attendance, the implementation of this system with ends of lucre is a little complicated. In spite of this, I consider that the implementation of this system can be very positive for these institutions that absorb the manufacture of the apparatuses or that somehow finance the elaboration of the same ones in different particular laboratories. If we think of these economic characteristics, it is clear that the tendency to continue for the system in the developing countries should be the improove of the procedures to work in function of a central unit of brication.
An example to be clearer: Mexico is a country that in a particular state of the republic (Chihuahua), it counts with more than 65,900 towns with less than 5000 habitants. If we take into account that the POH recognizes that in countries like Mexico the disability average is 12%, and of that 12% the people that possibly could occupy some of the services that offers the system CAD CAM it is only 2%. although this number in terms of money is very low, we can see in people's terms we speak ( only in Chihuahua) we are leaving without at least the possibility to have a rehabilitation service to at least 500,000 people, because this quantity and the area where they are living, do not justifies the construction of rehabilitation centers in this range of towns. In Mexico, 28 of the 32 state of the republic have the same problem in a lower but not dispitefull average.
I considder that the tendency that the CAD/CAM technology should be to made cheaper prosthetics, Not High tech prosthetics, for the manufacturers been able to get in to this kind of markets. The problem here is that the CAD/CAM system is expensive by it self for countryes with the characteristics like Mexico.
Never the less, the good news is that in Mexico we all ready have 1 CAD/CAM system! for a 100,000,000 people.
Abusing of this forum, I would like to ask to you, in your experience which is the CAD/CAM system that you consider better and that evidently, to be more useful to work under the philosophy of central unit of fabrication with mobile units that can be able to offer a service to this kind of comunities?.
Warm regards from Mexico!
I read with interest the messages published abouth the CAD/CAM system during the last weeks.
I can recognize in most of the messages that economically the system has been very beneficial for many facilities. Taking two steps away from the original cuestion abouth what does the CAD/CAM system will be able to offer in the future,I wanted to subject the discussion the true options they exist to implement this system in the developing countries. We have to take into account that at least in countries like Mexico where the market of the prótesis is financed in 70% by institutions they are already of private attendance or of public attendance, the implementation of this system with ends of lucre is a little complicated. In spite of this, I consider that the implementation of this system can be very positive for these institutions that absorb the manufacture of the apparatuses or that somehow finance the elaboration of the same ones in different particular laboratories. If we think of these economic characteristics, it is clear that the tendency to continue for the system in the developing countries should be the improove of the procedures to work in function of a central unit of brication.
An example to be clearer: Mexico is a country that in a particular state of the republic (Chihuahua), it counts with more than 65,900 towns with less than 5000 habitants. If we take into account that the POH recognizes that in countries like Mexico the disability average is 12%, and of that 12% the people that possibly could occupy some of the services that offers the system CAD CAM it is only 2%. although this number in terms of money is very low, we can see in people's terms we speak ( only in Chihuahua) we are leaving without at least the possibility to have a rehabilitation service to at least 500,000 people, because this quantity and the area where they are living, do not justifies the construction of rehabilitation centers in this range of towns. In Mexico, 28 of the 32 state of the republic have the same problem in a lower but not dispitefull average.
I considder that the tendency that the CAD/CAM technology should be to made cheaper prosthetics, Not High tech prosthetics, for the manufacturers been able to get in to this kind of markets. The problem here is that the CAD/CAM system is expensive by it self for countryes with the characteristics like Mexico.
Never the less, the good news is that in Mexico we all ready have 1 CAD/CAM system! for a 100,000,000 people.
Abusing of this forum, I would like to ask to you, in your experience which is the CAD/CAM system that you consider better and that evidently, to be more useful to work under the philosophy of central unit of fabrication with mobile units that can be able to offer a service to this kind of comunities?.
Warm regards from Mexico!
Citation
Joaquin Oropeza M., “Cad/CAM System ( A point of view from a developing country),” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/216294.
