The industrial name for 3D printing is additive manufacturing. AM is a manufacturing process operated by a device that imprints 3-D items by depositing materials, typically in layers. It makes reference to a process that makes use of digital 3D design data to develop a product or part. Additive Manufacturing allows structures that are extremely complicated but can still be incredibly light and reliable. It offers a high level of design liberty, workable functionality optimisation and convergence, the produce of small batch shapes at sensible unit cost and a high level of item customization even in series manufacturing. Now a day bio-degradable components are being used for prosthetic applications of 3D printing or additive manufacturing. This article gives a detailed review of recent developments on polymeric bio-degradable materials for the additive manufacturing applications. Printing techniques with an emphasis on the constraints and obstacles of their benefits in productivity and processability as well as biodegradable material printability. The characteristics and features of the developed products and their numerous intriguing applications are then emphasised in specific in the fields of biomedical (morphological designs, tissue engineering and drug delivery), aviation, automotive, army, energy and ecological, acoustic applications and sporting equipment. Finally, this review concludes with an attitude for FDM-based hybrid bio-degradable composite materials, new business opportunities, significant challenges and possible alternatives.