Kate Garrett
Make-up Exploration
Implants.
3D Art Implants.
Image 9.0 - transdermal
What are 3D art Implants?
This is where objects are implanted under the skin completely to form shapes and changes to the structure of the limb or body surface.
Where did it come from?
The leading man in this area of body modification is Steven Haworth. In 1994 he thought of the idea of putting steel under the skin which will stretch the skin then removed and exchanged for a bigger ones allowed to heal then changed until the desired size has been reached.
What are the risks?
The main concern with this the riskof infection as in any procedure when cutting the skin the body may also react and try to push the forgein object out of it.
Image 9.1 - Arms and hand examples.
Image 9.2 - Game figures into the hands
Image 9.3 - Female with horns
Image 9.4- Ear in the arm
Image 9.5 - Male with horns
Implants.
Transdermal Implants.
* A transdermal implant is usually a stud with a flat bottom, this bottom is planted under the surface so not to be seen.
* It is also reffered to as a piercing without an exit.
* This type of body modification was invented by Steve Haworth.
* The first transdermal implant was the Metal Mohawk, implanted into Joe Aylward in 1996.
* The jewllery that is used in these have to be specially made otherwise the skin may reject them.
* Surrounding this typ eof body modification is a lot of llegal issue and each country/state has different laws on whether the procedure can be preformed and the limitations.
* However the same effect can be achieved with Dermal Anchoring and Surface Piercing.
The procedure:
1. The skin is marked, as well as an incision point (1-2 inches).
2. It is then opened with a scalpel and a dermal elevator (septum elevator) is used to create a pocket to slide in the implant.
3. Using a dermal punch/scalpel, the hole that the implant will pass through is made.
4. Through the first incision, the base of the transdermal is slid in, until its post passes through the hole. Or If the implant is two parts, the top half is screwed on.
5. The initial incision is closed with sutures tape.
Image 9.6 - The first bases of transdermal implants
Image 9.7 - Implanted bases available today
Where did the new design develop from?
The greatest influence on Samppa’s new transdermal implant design was a series of articles discussing amputees that had been fitted with an ITAP, or “Intraosseous Transcutaneous Amputation Prosthesis” (“intraosseous” meaning that it attached to the bone, and “transcutaneous” meaning it passed through the skin — the latter being the part that was relevant to Samppa’s work on transdermals). (Larratt, n.d.)
Ignoring the part of the ITAP that is screwed to the bone, and you have a device that is very similar to the transdermal implant of the body modification world, with many of the same qualities and issues. By studying advances in ITAP design, Samppa was able to extract crucial information in developing the most sophisticated transdermal implant to date. (Larratt, n.d.)
Image 9.8 - The three major developments of samppa's implants
Image 9.9 - Advanced design transdermal implants
Image 9.10 - traditional implants
Many that have under gone a procedure say, that the sometimes painful procedures used to create them can be emotionally and even spiritually uplifting.
(CBS News, 2015)