Manufacturing also involves activities in which the manufactured product itself is used to make other products. Therefore, it can be defined as the process of transforming raw materials into final products. Manufacturing is a production technique that dates back to the very origins of the human race and reflects humans’ need to adapt the world to their needs. This AM method has become increasingly popular in the manufacturing sector due to its great versatility and geometry control. Therefore, this study aims to collect relevant and up-to-date information from an exhaustive literature review on EBM and its applications in the medical and biomedical fields. In the biomedical field, these materials have been mainly employed to facilitate bone adhesion and fixation, as well as for joint replacement surgeries, thanks to their good chemical, mechanical, and biocompatibility properties.

Although discovered in 1790, titanium and its alloys only started to be used as engineering materials for biomedical prostheses after the 1950s.

One of the most common metals employed to manufacture medical implants is titanium. The AM method that has been more investigated to obtain metallic implants for medical and biomedical use is Electron Beam Melting (EBM), which is based on the powder bed fusion technique. Additive Manufacturing (AM) or rapid prototyping technologies are presented as one of the best options to produce customized prostheses and implants with high-level requirements in terms of complex geometries, mechanical properties, and short production times.

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