FACE MENDING

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 7

FACE MENDING

GOOD LOOKS BY SURGERY. How the war taught surgeons the an of restoring to an. almost natural condition the features of our fighting men who had received terrible and disfiguring face wounds is de3oribed by Maior IT. J). Gillies in "Plastic Surgerv of the Face."

Major Gillies tells of a srivato of tho Royal Minister, Fusilien?, who had u large portion of the left cheek, the corner nf the moi>th, and the upper lip blown away by a shell. -The eoldier was found one morning looking into a mirror and smiling with the remnininsr side- of his face. Asked why ho was amused, he Teplicd: "Sure. I was thinking nhwat an aisy toime the barber will have in future."

"This," says the author, "is characteristic, of the cheerful resignation of face cases in genernl."" Plastic surgery consists in replacing lost parts in the cheeks, lips, noses, jaws. and other plates by skin, fat, muscles, cartilage. aud hone, taken from other parts of the body. _ . "It is now possible, says Major Gillies, "to give (i man a new noso that looks like a nose, has a good colour, a good circulation, and a good airway. The pu'Miose, in which the nostrils open forward" and even upward. can he remedied by implanting ceitnlage (gristle) taken from the itatient s own ribs. "The hest-looking nose is made from skin taken from tlie forehead, which is similar in colour and of the greasy nature of tlio natural nose. But it can also be reuiadci from skm from the arm, ehoek. or oack.