Man Receives Artificial Face

jeffy124 writes: "Doctors in Kentucky have successfully implanted an artificial face. The surgery was required because of a rare fungal infection called mucormycosis in the man's sinus cavity that required removal his nose, eyes, cheekbones, upper jaw, and some teeth. The surgery required reconstruction of the mouth using tissue from his legs and facial bones were replaced with titanium bridging on which a prosthetic face is placed."

Comments

Not particularly groundbreaking

[Phaid]

This sort of thing is by no means new - there are ample cases of facial prostheses in use today. It's not unknown to have cancer patients with similar, albeit less extensive, facial reconstruction necessary after surgery. The process is pretty similar, you implant magnets in the remaining bone structure, or attach them to a titanium superstructure implanted in the bone if the defect is very large, and attach a silicon prosthesis using those.

There really are some amazing feats being performed every day by the medical profession. People should read more or at least watch the Discovery Channel on occasion, then they wouldn't be as surprised by things like this make CNN.

Eeeuurrrggghhh

[Prowl]

am i the only one around here who nearly barfed at that story.

i cannot begin to imagine what life must have been like for that bloke.

it makes the latest kernel release seem pretty insignificant.