“…This phenomenon makes smooth surfaces and corners difficult to manufacture without post-processing modifications [22], and facilitates biofilm adherence [24]. Therefore, tumbling, chemical and electrochemical polishing, blasting, electropolishing, lathe or microabrasive machining, laser polishing, plasma spraying, or manual polishing [25–27] may be employed to smooth the surface [23,28,29,30]. The objective of this study was to assess the role of surface finish, using manual polishing, on biofilm formation of three different LPBF metals.…”