JAW BONES FROM RIBS
BRITISH SURGEON'S FEAT WORK AFTER THE AIR RAIDS New noses, new cheek bones, new jaws, built up for the most part from the owner's ribs are among the achievements of plasrtic surgeons in BriLain's hospitals to-day. Although the heaviest are "blitz" kills or maims only a fraction of the total estimated before the Luftwalfe came, the proportion receiving facial injuries is high. Thirty years ago many of these mutilations would have been beyond remedy. To-day the plastic surgeon can virtually restore .most of the features to normality. He will graft as much as a 'hundred square inches of skin froni 'ne part of the patient's body to another. A section of rib, six inches long, becomes a jawbone. A woman smiling lo greet a friend docs so thanks to the section of sciatic, nerve that keeps normal a face which would have been ..permanently twisted by dee]) glass/.vounds. Every ,tveek the surgeons of tain arc slowly and successfully rebuilding these features damaged by splinters and fragments of flying g'ass, wood and steel.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 132, 23 July 1941, Page 2
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