Dermatos^® is Greek for "of skin" -   “Of skin” is right, as nothing could more accurately describe this material on account of its amazing life-like appearance.

Dermatos^® prosthetic technology is not just prosthetic skin, but an entire process that is adaptable for fabrication into prosthetic devices as small as a fingertip or as large as entire leg.  Dermatos^® is even made into skin covers that protect and enhance the gripping power of bionic and body powered hands.

Engendered with creases, pores and fingerprints, the architects of Dermatos^® “went back to nature” to accomplish this virtually identical life-like skin appearance.  Like human skin, Dermatos^® is created of three skin layers: the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous. Dermatos^® does not only contain three skin layers, but meticulously and accurately simulates the visual properties of each human skin layer it represents. 

In real human skin, the epidermis layer (the outer layer of skin) has fingerprints and skin detail; it also contains pigment called melanin.  When skin is exposed to the sun, more melanin is created to help counteract the damaging rays of the sun.  Likewise, Dermatos^®’s epidermis skin layer contains remarkably realistic fingerprints and skin detail along with a simulated melanin.  Furthermore, when an amputee wearing a Dermatos^® prosthesis gets a tan on their real skin, they are supplied with “prosthetic melanin” in a bottle (called Derma~tan) so the prosthesis can be made to match their new tan. Each user is able to apply this “liquid tan” directly on their prosthesis where it is absorbed immediately into the epidermis layer.  Each subsequent rubbing of the fluid makes the Dermatos^® skin gradually darker, thus protecting the user from accidentally “tanning too quickly”.

Alatheia takes this same attention to detail with the other layers of skin.  In real human skin, the layer of skin below the epidermis, known as the dermis, is a translucent mesh of skin cells with little or no pigment, allowing the color from the subcutaneous layer to be seen.  Dermatos^®’s dermis layer is visually identical.  And while the deepest human skin layer, the subcutaneous layer, contains blood vessels and subcutaneous fat that creates the final element of skin color, Dermatos^® mimics these hues with a custom painted translucent layer of pigmented silicone.