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Plastination

Plastination basically consists in the replacement of biological tissue fluids by a polymer under pressure conditions. Plastinated specimens are realistic, clean, dry, odourless and durable, can be manipulated without gloves and do not require any significant condition for storage. The use of plastinated specimens in anatomy dismissed the risk for both teachers and students to hazardous substances such as formaline, phenol, alcohol, etc.

Plastination was formerly developed by Dr. Gunther von Hagens en Heidelberg (1978). All plastination protocols are based in 4 key steps: fixation, dehydration, impregnation and curing.