A graphical review on the escalation of fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing in the pharmaceutical field

Fused deposition modeling 3D printing is currently one of the hot topics in pharmaceutics and has shown a 2000% increase in the number of research articles published in the last 5 years. In the prospect of a new era of fused deposition modeling focused on the industrial development of this technique applied to the fabrication of personalized medicines, a conceptual map to move through the evolution of the design of the printed dosage forms/drug delivery systems was conceived and mainly discussed by means of graphical tools.