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Are these sentences correct on how to use "plaster cast"?
1. I have a plaster cast on / around my arm.
2. I'm wearing a plaster cast on / around my arm.
3. The doctor put a plaster cast on / around my arm.
4. My arm is on / in a plaster cast.
Please help me with the correct form(s) and the preposition. And if there are other ways to say similar sentences, please let me know.
 

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1-3 - on
4 - in

Quite often (more often than not) we* omit 'cast' (although it's not wrong in any of your examples). 'The doctor put my arm in plaster.'

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PS *Speakers of Br Eng. See post # 4
 
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Note that when we omit "cast", we also omit the article and use "in plaster" as the description of the broken limb.

I have a plaster cast on my leg.
My leg is in plaster.
The doctor put my leg in plaster.
I currently have my leg in plaster.
 

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The opposite seems to be true in the US. I would say that the doctor put my arm in a cast.
 

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:oops: I had a "We, Paleface?" moment. ;-) I've add a PS to my original post.

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The opposite seems to be true in the US. I would say that the doctor put my arm in a cast.

I think that's true for BrE as I would use:
My doctor put my arm in a cast.
My doctor put a cast on my arm.
 

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I guess we use both then. In BrE, I'd say "in plaster" more frequently than "in a cast".
 
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