GIRL CHOOSING NEW FACE
1 Operations After Hyena Attack (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter) KAMPALA (Uganda). An 11-year-old African , girl will soon be able to choose a new “face.”
True it will only be a temporary plastic one but it will be of her own choice. She will wear it for a six-month period in a break between operations to build her a permanent face.
For the girl, named Ilukol, had the entire bottom half of her face—her nose, her lips and jaw—bitten off by a hyena as she lay asleep on tha floor of her parents’ hut in Karamoja, northern Uganda. Fortunately the girl lost neither her eyes nor her tongue, and was still able to see. Skin grafting operations have put skin back into her jaw. She has been given false teeth, a roof to her mouth, and is now being taught to speak again. Ilukol still needs a new nose and lips, but the time has now come for a six* months break in the operations, and so a temporary mask, or “face” is to be given to the girl.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 19
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