JAW BONES FROM RIBS
SURGEONS’ FEATS AFTER AIR RAIDS. New noses, new cheek bones, new jaws, built up for the most part from the owner’s ribs are among the achievements of plastic surgeons in Britain’s hospitals today. Although the heaviest air “blitz” kills or maims only a fraction of the total estimated before the Luftwaffe came, the proportion receiving facial injuries is high. Thirty years ago many of these mutilations would have been beyond, remedy. Today the plastic surgeon .can virtually restore most of the features to normality.
He will graft as much as a hundred square inches of skin from one part of the patient’s body to another. A section of rib, six inches long, becomes a jawbone. A woman smiling to greet a friend does so thanks to the section of sciatic nerve that keeps normal a face which would have been permanently twisted by deep glass wounds. Every week the surgeons of Britain are slowly and successfully rebuilding these features damaged by splinters and fragments of flying glass, wood and steel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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174JAW BONES FROM RIBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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