NEW FACES FOR OLD

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 11

NEW FACES FOR OLD

CUMBROUS CURVES CARVED AWAV.

Jack Dempsey has a new nose befitting a bridegroom, and a film actor. But there are people walking about England to-day whose, faces represent little miracles. Anyone can have a new nose who cares to undergo the operation, and care to pay for it. It is the least difficult of the problems facing the. manipulative surgeon. Anything can be done with a nose. A smashed bridge can be rebuilt. A tendency to the excessive in the retrousse can be corrected. The overRoman can be subjected to conquest. The ovec-long can be. made perfect. There is a charming young 1 ady moving in London society at this moment who was physically less charming twelve months ago. Her nose, with racial persistence, made the remainder of her face look trifling by comparison, and her lower lip was so curved that- her expression belied her mind in that, though her outlook on life was entirely sympathetic, and happy, her facial contours suggested that she was supersupercilious, and her lip expression made her friends and her enemies suspect her of sneering cynicism. She went to the manipulative surgeon with her troubles. He achieved the seemingly impossible. An ugly nose was converted into a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. He gave the offending lip a new elevation, so that the expression of sneering disappeared, and an expression of frankness and cheerfulness took its place. A profile which was too characteristic of her ancestors was softened. Nature

MARVELS OF PLASTIC SURGERY

was improved upon, a smile was carved away, and society was given a beauty, who but for the surgeon’s art would have been a commonplace. •

More could be told about a French, model, who might have been attractive if her nose had travelled in the one direction instead of in several. But there is no need to -say more than that her attractiveness is now indisputable. In the bad ola days, the man. or woman echo sought to beautify a profile used to build up the bridge with paraffin wax. The results were partially satisfactory for a time, . but. no present-day surgeon would ever , think of using such a substance. . Instead, they transplant a piece •of cartilege, or a fragment of rib; working usually entirely from the inside, or, if. it- is necessary to come into the open, by means of a tiny incision between the nostrils. Much more difficult than those jobs are thost where there has been some disfigurement, through injury or burns or disease, A soldier was treated some time ago for an ugly slash from a native’s knife. The nose was built up, and his appearance is now almost normal. Disease sometimes eats away large portions of the nostrils. Even these can be treated successfully, and tlie missing portions replaced Likewise, a liare-lip and a cleft palate no longer condemn a child to painful disfigurement and irritating impediment. Complete facial adjustment is now possible.