Medical Art

Many people live day to day without incident or, if something does happen, it isn’t a life-threatening event. However, there is sadly a large amount of deaths each day throughout the world. Surprisingly, these occurrences in people aged between 1 and 45 aren’t from illnesses, but from traumatic injuries such as car accidents and dangerous falls. If a person does survive such a traumatic event, they could be left with many kinds of severe and often ...

In our training as medical artists we focused on prosthetic restoration of the face and also finger and partial hand restoration. Our primary purpose was to hone our skills in the creation of prostheses that looked very real; prostheses that matched the subtle characteristics of the patient’s skin tones including freckles, blood vessels, etc. as well as their skin textures including pores, wrinkles, etc. Over the course of years in private practice, the number of patients ...