Inventor, Hideki Watanabe, created the prototype using dental plaster from his practice that he used to line the inside surface of a metal pot in a spiral design.
If there's a Major League Baseball park, an NBA or NHL arena, or an NFL stadium, corporations line up to bid for the opportunity to plaster their names on it.
The new gown can be adapted for many forms of surgery and post-operative care needs, including heart surgery, the insertion of a neck line or hernia repair, or accessing a plaster cast on a broken arm, the hospital said.