GIVEN NEW FACES
(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received March 29, 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 29. In four months, 300 soldiers with facial wounds have been given new faces at an Australian general hospital. Most of the men had been wounded in fighting in New Guinea. By means of skin and bone grafting, plastic surgeons have been able to repair the damage, often without leaving a scar. As yet, Australia has only four highlyskilled plastic surgeons, three of whom are on the staff of the hospital. Two of them studied in England under the famous New Zealand surgeon Sir Harold Gillies. Not one death has resulted in all the 300 cases already treated and a high percentage of patients have been returned lit to their fighting units.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 157, 30 March 1943, Page 5
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128GIVEN NEW FACES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 157, 30 March 1943, Page 5
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