NEW FACES FOR OLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5021, 1 September 1926, Page 3

NEW FACES FOR OLD.

MARVELS OF PLASTIC SURGERY.

CUMBROUS CURVES CORRECTED.

Jack Dempsey has a new nose, befitting a bridegroom, and a film actor. But there aye 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 fpr it. It is the least difficult df the problems facing.the manipulative surgeon. Anything can be done wi,th a nose. A ( smashed bridge can be rebuilt. A tendency to the excessive in the retrousse can be corrected. The overRoma.n can be subjected to conquest. The over-long can be made perfect. There is> a charming young lady moving in London society at this moment who was physically less charming twelve months ago. Her no r se, with racial persistence, made the remaind-er-of her face look trifling by comparison, and her lower ijp was so curved that her expression belied her mind in that 1 , though her outlook on life wa,s- entirely sympathetic, and happy, her facial contours, suggested that she was super-supercilious, 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 it,s place. A profile which was too characteristic of her ancestorsjyas softened. Nature 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 he.r nose had travelled in the one direction instead oT in several. But there is no need to slay more than that her attractiveness- is how indisputable.

In tae had old days the man or woman who sought to beautify a, profile, build up the bridge with paraffn wax. The results were partially satisfactory for a time, but no present-day surgeon would fever think of. using such a substance. Instead, they transplant a pie'ce, 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 those 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 nofee was built up, and his appearance is now almost normal. Disease sometimes ea,ts away large portions of the nostrils. Even the.se c.an be treated successfully and the missing portions replaced. Likewisfe, a hare-lip aiid a cleft palate no longer 'condemn a child to< painful, disfigurement and irritating impediment Complete facial adjustment is now possible.