{"id":142144,"key":"TissueDB/Materials/Talcum_Powder","title":"TissueDB/Materials/Talcum Powder","latest":{"id":1259363,"timestamp":"2026-08-05T15:29:04Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{TissueDB Material Layout\n| lead_paragraph = '''Talcum powder''' is a cosmetic powder bought ready-made from pharmacies, supermarkets and general stores. In TissueDB it has one documented use, and it is a surface finish rather than a substitute for a tissue: the [[TissueDB/Simulators/Abdominal Wall Defect Simulator (Medeiros)|Abdominal Wall Defect Simulator (Medeiros)]] dusts its finished neonatal mannequins with about 100 g of talcum powder so that they resemble newborns.<ref name=\"medeiros2023\">Medeiros GA, Gualberto IJN, da Silva CHND, Diniz AMB, de Santana JBF, Volpe FP, Gadde R, Mazzo A, de Oliveira RC, Sbragia L. Development of a low-cost congenital abdominal wall defect simulator (wall-go) for undergraduate medical education: a validation study. ''BMC Medical Education''. 2023;23(1):966. Open access (CC BY 4.0). DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04929-3 10.1186/s12909-023-04929-3]. PMID 38102605.</ref>\n| references = <references />\n| overview = Bought ready-made as a cosmetic powder from pharmacies, supermarkets and general stores. One use is documented across TissueDB builds — dusting a finished neonatal mannequin so that it looks like a just-born newborn — and the only figure recorded for it is the quantity, about 100 g for the two models in that build. The simulator page that uses it records no grade, no particle size, no storage requirement and no separate cost.\n| synonyms_text = '''Common names:''' talc, talcum, talcum powder.\n\n'''Regional names:''' talco (ES, PT).\n| tissues_rows = <tr>\n<td>(Structural — cosmetic surface finish, not tissue simulant)</td>\n<td></td>\n<td></td>\n<td>[[TissueDB/Simulators/Abdominal Wall Defect Simulator (Medeiros)|Abdominal Wall Defect Simulator (Medeiros)]]</td>\n<td>The build's finishing phase dusts the models with about 100 g of talcum powder so they resemble newborns. It is a cosmetic surface finish applied at the end of the build, not something consumed while the trainer is used.<ref name=\"medeiros2023\" /></td>\n</tr>\n}}\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = talcum powder, talc, talcum, cosmetic powder, newborn finish, surface finish, neonatal mannequin, TissueDB\n| description = Talcum powder — a cosmetic powder used in TissueDB as a surface finish, dusted over a finished neonatal mannequin so that it resembles a newborn.\n}}\n\n[[Category:TissueDB]]"}