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To: holymoly

Just out of sick curiosity: What happens to your head in such a case, if they can't reattach the scalp? Do you end up with what is essentially the world's worst facelift? Do they just put a metal plate in there and coax the skin to grow over it?


10 posted on 02/08/2005 4:09:45 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (Liberal radio can be summed up in five words: Dead air, um, dead air.)
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To: Dont Mention the War

I would imagine that extensive reconstructive surgery would be needed. It really depends if she was scalped down to the bone or a thin layer of muscle was left. If she was scalped down to the bone, she may have severe problems the rest of her life, which may end up being quite short.


14 posted on 02/08/2005 4:43:21 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Dont Mention the War

A plastic surgeon told me the full scalp will grow back in less than a year ("rolling in" from the sides), as long as there is no major infection or other complication. Of course, there will be no hair follicles in the new tissue. I have seen a case similar to that myself.


26 posted on 02/08/2005 6:44:37 PM PST by steve86
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To: Dont Mention the War

I think they take the rest of it off.

29 posted on 02/08/2005 7:44:01 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: Dont Mention the War

They'll probably take skin from her thigh or buttocks and reattach it to her scalp.


48 posted on 02/09/2005 5:43:15 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (If you right click on Keith Olberman's image, the word a$$hole should come up!)
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