NEW NOSES FOR WOUNDED MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 245, 13 October 1917, Page 15

NEW NOSES FOR WOUNDED MEN.

"' _ —.—_ The Queen's Hospital, at Frognal, in Kent, has been especially designed for the treatment of sailors and soldiers suffering from injuries to the face nnd jaw. The way to build a nose for a man whose original nose has been shot away was explained to a "Daily Express" ropresentntlve with tbe help of casts and wax models. I First, the patient's wound must heal completely. Then the contour of the new 'organ must be built-the foundations of the inose laid, so to speak. This Is done with a piece of cartilage from the patient's breast. JTheu from the forehead a flap of skin Is cut out according to a pattern from the ideal nose modelled In plaster by a sculptor. This piece of skin is twisted about and drawn down to cover the v> iole uose except the places left for the nostrils. In a few weeks the senrs have healed and the nose is complete except, alas! for the sense of smell. New lips are constructed in much the same way, excepting that artificial teeth ion a plate make the foundation for two 'flaps of skin cut from the checks and pulled I down into place. The red for the lips is I taken from Inside the mouth. In case of ■the under lip it is cut nnd brought down ; from inside the upper lip and sewn to the j skin nt the top of the chin, thus closing the man's mouth except for a little hole at each corner, through which he Is fed until the wounds arc healed. The red membrane is then cut away from the inner upper lip and sewn inside the lower one to I form the correct shape.