Friday 1 November 2013

Teenage girl grows new face on her breast

The Chinese girl had disfigured her face in a burning accident 12 years ago

Thanks to pioneering technology and scientific advancement, a Chinese girl with a disfigured face grew a new face on her breast. 

Twelve years ago, as a five-year-old, the girl had horribly disfigured her face in a fire that broke out in her fishing village.

According to report in Daily Mail, now, after a wait of more than a decade, the youngster is able to smile after a successful facial reconstruction surgery in Fujian.

Doctors transplanted a blood vessel from Jianmei's leg into her chest and then inserted a water-filled balloon to stretch the skin of her chest. This skin provided the graft for her new face.

The surgery was conducted free of charge as Jianmei’s parents were unable to afford the cost.
 Xu Jianmei (pictured after her face transplant), 17, was left horrifically disfigured by a fire when she was just five-years-oldXu (pictured before her surgery) had an operation to replace the damaged skin on her face with skin from her chest

“With her new face she will be able to express herself in a more precise way. She will even be able to blush when her emotions change, but it will take a long time,” surgeon Jiang Chenhong told The Daily Mail.
The surgeons used a water-filled balloon to stretch the skin over Xu's breast to create enough extra skin to make her new face out ofMs Xu's parents were unable to afford to pay for her to have plastic surgery but she was given hope when doctors offered to carry out the pioneering operation for free
“First we took a piece of blood vessel fascia from her thigh and implanted it in her chest. Then we inserted a skin expander beneath the part of the skin where the blood vessel fascia was planted, so that the part could expand and produce enough skin for her new face,” he added.

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