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fiberglass cast

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fiberglass cast
a cast made of a water activated polyurethane resin incorporated into a bandage; used for fractured limbs. Has the virtues of very light weight, great strength and very quick setting.


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Doctors will stabilize the break by placing a finger or hand in a splint, placing the broken bone area into a fiberglass cast, snapping the bones back into place or using screws, nails, or plates to hold the bones together if the fracture requires surgery.
These were interspersed throughout the first gallery in Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive (all works 2007), a three-channel video installation projected onto two large wooden roadside billboards and a fiberglass cast of an old computer monitor, so as to create the illusion that the video is playing on its obsolete screen.
The benefits of fiberglass casts and splints is that they are light, more resistant to wear and tear and it also allows the underlying skin to breath better than plaster casts.
 
 
 
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