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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1925, Page 3

PLASTIC SriUIEIIV. LONDON. July lf>. Pat'ients are now coming to this country from nil parts ot the world to avail tjhemselves of tho skill of Britain’s plastic surgeons. No greater surgical triumph was achieved during the war than the building up of new faces on men whose features had lieon blown away or were so mutilated as to make the unfortunate soldiers unrecognisable. Plastic surgery was known before the war, lint was never used to such an extent as during the later stages of the conflict. Noses, jaws, and cheeks were reconstructed out of pieces of flesh, bone, and cartilage taken from other parts of the patients’ bodies with entire success, and many men now walking about with features given to them by the surgeon would hardly have dared to venture forth a few years ago. Now that the war is oyer plastic surgery performs a legitimate and most useful work in repairing the ravages of diseases which affect the flesh and cartilages of the face, nose, and ears and in restoring good looks to the victims of accidents. Fads there will always be. such as ' that of remodelling and reshaping the nose, which came into prominence m America early Inst year. Some of the operations undertaken for that purpose then were successful; others were not. for plastic surgery undertaken by surgeons skilled in that particular branch of medicine is a different thing from tho operations of so-called ‘‘beauty specialists,”