scientists grow nose on man's forehead

[pre med 2014]

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/new-nose-grown-on-mans-forehead-20130926-2ufpy.html

 

[Escape_Goat]

Shame they don't plan on leaving it on his forehead. It would be great for snorkeling.

 

[BlueLabel]

Shame they don't plan on leaving it on his forehead. It would be great for snorkeling.

Hahah +Juan

 

[clothcut]

Yeah, SCIENCE!!!

 

[Body Habitus]

Shame they don't plan on leaving it on his forehead. It would be great for snorkeling.

This guy nose whats up.

 

[Gauss44]

I think they grew an ear on a mouse a while back.

 

[Omppu27]

Saw this on the "I F***ing Love Science" facebook page... Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Johnmc]

Ill be impressed when they grow a forehead on a man's nose.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Gives new meaning to "picking" your brain.

 

[VisionaryTics]

They didn't really "grow it". They just implanted some cartilage and reshaped the forehead skin to make something that looks like a nose.

It's cool, but it's not like they gave him a pill to grow a nose.

 

[alpinism]

They didn't really "grow it". They just implanted some cartilage and reshaped the forehead skin to make something that looks like a nose.

It's cool, but it's not like they gave him a pill to grow a nose.

Exactly. Its a flap prefabrication procedure, they didn't grow a new nose from scratch.

 

[SunsFun]

What did you guys expect? Something along the lines of South Park episode with a mouse.

 

[catzzz88]

I do not understand why they would do this on his forehead.... When they remove it to transplant it to his nose, it will leave a huge scar on his forehead, which adds to the disfigurement that they are trying to improve...

For example why couldn't they "grow" it on his chest or a place where a scar from removal would not be located on his face?

 

[pre med 2014]

^i assume it would have to be attached to the nasal passageway to function properly. However, that wouldn't explain how they grew a nose on a British man's arm.

 

[Escape_Goat]

What did you guys expect? Something along the lines of South Park episode with a mouse.

Don't be silly. How useful could a penis growing on someone's forehead be?

 

[VisionaryTics]

I do not understand why they would do this on his forehead.... When they remove it to transplant it to his nose, it will leave a huge scar on his forehead, which adds to the disfigurement that they are trying to improve...

For example why couldn't they "grow" it on his chest or a place where a scar from removal would not be located on his face?

The infection has basically destroyed the vascular bed of his nose, which sucks to begin with. A free flap would have a hard time surviving. So you use a local rotation flap from the forehead, which carries it's own blood supply with it (partially an axial flap based off the supratrochlear artery, partially a random flap sustained via the subdermal plexus). The scar doesn't look awful, actually, even if you can't completely close the forehead.

Also, this isn't entirely a cosmetic surgery. This is a functional surgery so he can breathe through his nose.

This a prelaminated paramedian forehead flap, if you want to look it up.

 

[Espadaleader]

This is the difference between med and premed

 

[neuronerd24]

But wait.. does it work?!