So much biblio right now.



"Chinese man has new nose grown on forehead

A man from China's Fujian province has had a new nose grown on his forehead following a traffic accident last year.

The 22-year-old man suffered severe nasal trauma and his subsequent treatment caused his nasal cartilage to corrode. Surgeons came up with the idea of growing a nose on his forehead.

After nine months of growth, surgeons say that the the nose is in good shape and the transplant will be performed soon."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24282498

Um

This is actually interesting. How did they "grow" the nose?

Why the smiley? Mess. This is a great development for medicine and obviously was necessary for the man's health. Would you rather he suffered greatly or had a less quality of life without any kind of nose?

at OP tbh.

In the video it says that they will relocate his new nose to where his old nose was. So ya'll can stop with those biblios.

On the forehead tho?!
I'd rather die... also because the Bieber cut wouldn't let me breathe

This is incredible.
Great thinking and good job by those doctors. Amazing.


And I guess it was done somewhat the same way you can artificially grow excess skin on a patient's back for instance? Only with much more care for detail and structure of the tissue they grew in this case, obviously.

Then again, how would they have grown the nasal cartilage in the nose? Can that be done the same way? I know absolutely nothing about that method, but I assumed you couldn't grow anything but excess skin tissue this way?

Fascinating.

Yeah, I'm sure you would

It says it's going to be relocated to where it belongs soon.

This is actually great.

Starting trends I see

they had those pictures in the newspapers here today and I thought they were photoshopped

Incredible, but the angle of the nose and everything.. why? Hm, guess you could hide it under a hat.

Disturbing.

WOW

This is amazing