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Um, first of all I haven't seen a plaster cast in 40 years, they've been fiberglass at least that long, which means they weigh 1/4 of a plaster cast.
Second, we've been using other braces instead, like plastics with Velcro wraps that can be removed to clean a wound or just the skin.
I don't trust when people are disingenuous about current state of things to promote their solution as so much better.
Or they do a partial fiberglass 60% of the circumference and wrap that so it can be removed. Its honestly great, there is little need to change it.
Maybe if it was a true 3d scan to print, that had it ready in 10 minutes, I could see that. But that would still be better as a mesh rather than whatever this is.