Posted on 11/06/2013 5:19:23 PM PST by lbryce
Growing a nose on a forehead or an ear on an arm is a revolutionary approach to surgical reconstruction. mages of a nose implanted on a man's forehead have been all over the Internet, like ads for some creepy horror film you probably don't want to see. Almost as jarring are pictures of an ear protruding from a woman's inner arm.
They're not from some horror movie—they're real science. The nose-on-the-forehead photo depicts a nose repair in progress in China. The photo of the ear on an arm was published in the September 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Such surgeries are examples of new approaches to standard reconstructive techniques that may cost patients a few months of psychological discomfort but will eventually allow their facial features to be repaired.
Patrick Byrne, director of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center in Green Spring Station, Maryland, believes his innovative ear reconstruction pictured in the NEJM was one of the first performed in the world. Growing noses on foreheads or ears on arms before transplanting them to the conventional locations is based on surgical reconstruction techniques going back hundreds of years. But modern-day applications are truly revolutionary, as Byrne explained in an interview with National Geographic News.
The photographs look like some sort of cruel joke. Is this a serious procedure?
Yes, it certainly is. It's called prelamination: Tissue that's going to be used to rebuild an area is constructed in multiple layers. In the case of the ear, I was trying to solve a difficult problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
It reminds of the email onslaught of years back, people buying hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of pills to help them become more manly, actually if you took the amount of pills ingested into consideration, more elephantine, sounds more like it. Eventually the guy hawking these sugar pills ended up in the slammer. What was really amazing is the abject gullibility of those who felt underrepresented in certain areas in the efficacy of the pills to deliver.
Maybe they could grow breasts on women’s backs, so slow dancing would make a comeback.
Maybe Obozo can grow one...he already got a Pinocchio nose.
Wait until he has an extra eye growing in his shoulder.
No one nose.
I agree with your suggestion in principle. But believe, in regard to this particular item, most of those who would prefer that kind of thing, would first opt for increasing the number when they are traditionally located and then studying their options for future consideration.
OMG poor dude the first victim of Obamacare. Well things happen.
Wait until he has an extra eye growing in his shoulder.
Wait until he has an extra eye growing in his shoulder.
Now the makers of Enhance will be looking for a subsidy
Gives the phrase, “let me pick your brain” a whole new meaning.
GOT YOUR NOSE!!!
This doesn’t pass the smell test.
Those Martians. They really know how to stick it in our eye.
Nice!
I was thinking something more on the lines of “Basketcase”
Yeah, but there’s no image from that movie which wouldn’t get pulled from FR.
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