The Nose on This Man's Forehead is Not Fake
A Chinese man is the first person in the world to get a new nose that has been grown on his forehead after a car accident left him with severe nasal damage.
By Sadho Ram — 26 Sep 2013, 03:10 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
A new nose grown by surgeons on Xiaolian's forehead. It will be transplanted to replace the original nose
Xiaolian had sustained injuries to his original nose after a traffic accident in August, 2012
The man suffered damage to his nose and an infection after a severe car accident. The infection had eaten away at the cartilage in his nose, making it impossible to for doctors to fix his original one.
discovery.com
To craft the new appendage, doctors took cartilage from Xiaolian’s ribs and implanted it under skin tissue on his forehead. When finished growing later this month, the nose will be transplanted to its proper place.
time.com
Doctors say that they will soon be able to carry out a transplant operation to replace the damaged nose with the newly grown one.
Image via dailymail.co.ukDespite his perhaps bizarre appearance, it is a rather common nose reconstruction technique
Despite its extreme appearance, this method is not that different from plastic surgery techniques used all the time, said Dr. David Cangello, an attending plastic surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan, Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in New York.
livescience.com
"I would call it a different take on a principles that we commonly use in reconstruction," Cangello said.
dailyrecord.co.uk“It’ll be a real nose and [have a] breathing passage way. He should be able to smell, the smell receptors are pretty high in the nose.”
yahoo.comIt's not the first time such an unusual method has been used. Earlier this year, a British businessman who lost his nose to cancer grew a new one on his arm.
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