Artificial skin

Surgery to alter and improve body parts became popular with both men and women in the 21st century, despite medical resources coming under extreme pressure from the increased incidence of diseases such as cancer at that time (thankfully now in decline). The prevailing Cult of Youth during this period meant that people sought to look youthful at all costs, regardless of financial burden, physical pain and the medical risks involved, even undergoing plastic skin grafts ('plastic surgery') in order to achieve a wrinkle-free look. This sample of artificial skin was recovered from a Suffolk burial site which has been lost to the sea. All that remained in the graves were the replacement plastic body parts.

see also breast implant