The polyester resin plastination as a tool for making permanent dry specimens for teaching gynaecology

Plastinated specimens make significant and quick references for the understanding of Gross Anatomy. The reproductive organs were collected from the slaughter house in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu and are fixed in Keiser ling I solution. Dehydration was done by a number of changes in acetone followed by xylene. The air drying of the specimen in the following step permits substitution of xylene by air. The organs are treated with polyester resin followed by curing with a mixture of resin and catalyst. The completely cured specimens are labeled and the labels are again coated with resin catalyst mixture, so as to make the labels permanent. Thus, the resulting specimens become a three dimensional model of original which do not require wet preservation.