Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1915 — Modeling New Faces on Wounded. [ARTICLE]

Modeling New Faces on Wounded.

Some extraordinary operations to repair faces shattered by shells are being performed by the French surgeons. Dr. J. Dundas Grant describes in the Lancet a few of those that he witnessed at Vai de Grace and Bordeaux. In one case the bridge of a man’s nose had been driven in, completely closing the rear nasal passages. M. Morestin detached what was left of the nose, leaving it as a flap attached below. He cleared out the nasal passages and stuffed the cavity with gauze, which he replaced with rubber tubes after a few days. He planted part of the cartilage of a rib in the man’s forehead, and when this had taken root he cut it away, turned it down, attached It to the remains of the nose and remodeled this. In many cases in which a large part of the lower jaw had been shot away, casts were taken of both jaws, and on these the surgeons and the dentists studied the best methods of repair. They were often able to restore at least the ability to chew food and to talk.