"One of the victims was in hospital for seven days, where they had two operations, including skin grafts and plastic surgery, " he added.

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The plastic stuck to my skin and it was a pain to deflate.

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You'll also have small, plastic drainage tubes under your skin near your incision to help drain any fluids that accumulate.

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That could mean a growing number of people opting for a risky and radical way of combating obesity--and a large number of people who turn to plastic surgeons to have excess skin removed.

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When I attach it to the waistband of my running shorts, the plastic clip doesn't leave scratches on my skin, as the third-generation Shuffle did.

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Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.

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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.

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Layers of muscle and skin were added by computer to a scan of the skull and the result was made into a three-dimensional plastic model.

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