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This paper investigates, for the first time, the use of Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (PETG), a glycol-modified class of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), as a potential material for the fabrication of bone scaffolds. PETG scaffolds with a 0\/90 lay-dawn pattern and different pore sizes (300, 350 and 450 \u00b5m) were produced using a filament-based extrusion additive manufacturing system and mechanically and biologically characterized. The performance of PETG scaffolds with 300 \u00b5m of pore size was compared with polycaprolactone (PCL). 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