Specimens such as curettage, prostate TURP chips, and other irregularly shaped, multiple-piece specimens without clear orientation should be arranged in the block face to show as much surface area of the pieces as possible in the final sections. Try to position each piece to point in the same general direction to reduce as much drag as possible during sectioning since this can minimize section puckering and wrinkling. You must strive to get all the pieces to harden in the same plane to obtain one complete, representative section.
