RESTORING FACES
SANDPAPER USED NEW YORK. May 10. Jttacial disfigurements can be removed with sarfdpaper. without skin grafting, says Dr. P. C. Iverson. He told the American Association of Plastic Surgeons at Memphis (Tennessee) that he had develooed a method while treating soldiers injured by explosions. “Removing skin from the face, and grafting on new skin proved unsatisfactory/’ he said. “We took sandpaper and removed the disfigured facial skin down to, but leaving the lowest layer, containing parts of the hair follicles and sweat glands. “The remnants of these glands started growing new skin.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 6
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94RESTORING FACES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 6
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