Posted on 09/26/2013 9:58:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
After a Chinese man’s nose was irreparably damaged from infection, his doctors decided to “grow” a second nose on the man’s forehead to replace the original nose.
The patient, identified only as Xiaolian according to Reuters, has his nose damaged from an infection following a car accident. His doctors decided the only way to reconstruct his nose was to surgically form a new one on the 22-year-old’s forehead.
Tissue expanders were placed under the skin and then cut to resemble a nose. According to local media, doctors expect to implant the new nose soon.
Dr. Patrick Byrne, the director of Facial, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, said forehead skin is used to help reform noses because it is the closest match to skin on the nose. However, usually the nose is reformed during surgery instead of on a patient’s forehead.
“My guess would be that they felt that the tissue in the nose was so damaged they had to use the forehead skin on the interior part of the nose,” said Byrne. “It’ll be a real nose and [have a] breathing passage way.”
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They shouldn’t have oriented it that way. What if it rains?
“They shouldn’t have oriented it that way. What if it rains?”
Stick two cigarettes in it.
This reminds me of the Movie, “Sleeper”
All it takes to blow his mind is a kleenex :)
NOW.... if “doctors” could only grow external brains for democrats
They shouldn’t have oriented it that way. What if it rains?
Take two of these and .......
I knoiw it’s a stupid question, but I am a stupid person, Why didn’t they just grow it where his old nose was?
First the krokodil drug thread and now this one. I gotta learn to stay off the computer when I’m eating lunch.......
“Whoa! I’d hate to see the grindstone.”
krokodil drug thread ?...................
That’s nothing...in America...we grew a penis in the white house.
Infected tissue..............
The Kleenex people send him Christmas cards.
Of course, right after they grafted a jackass under Oblabba’s hat.
So then Hillary exclaims,” You mean I’m going to have
to look at a penis growing out of my forehead the
rest of my life?”
To which the doctor replies, “No ma’am, the testicles
will obstruct your vision”.
Badabuum.
That’s nothing. I’ve seen pictures of guys who can grow bagels on their foreheads!
From the ABC article, doctors plan to put the new nose in right place later.
Paging Michael Jackson, please pick up the Free Republic courtesy phone.
Talk about walking around with your nose in the air!
Look at the SIZE of that nose and think of what he will look like after it’s implanted.
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