A patient might have to come in a few times to make these alginate impressions, which staff would physically package and ship to Bayridge Lab. And sometimes alginate models became distorted in the ...

[Matthew]’s first step was to make a flexible mold of his hand using Perfect Mold alginate material to do so. Once solidified, [Matthew’s] hand was removed and the mold filled with wax.

Alginate is sometimes used to make dental molds and while alginate molds lose their dimensional accuracy as they dry out, for this string that’s not really a concern. If you give it a try ...

Thus, to share this experience, we herein describe the technique we use for making these molds. The materials needed are dental alginate and dental plaster (die stone peach) which can be obtained ...

Cooksey said she uses a material called alginate to make molds. It starts as a liquid, then sets into a pliable substance in about six to eight minutes. After being peeled off a body part ...