New Nose Grown by Surgeons to Replace Original One

In Fuzhou, China, a 22 year old man named Xiaolian was admitted to a hospital as a patient. He was involved in a bad car accident in 2012 and his badly damaged nose was never taken care of properly. The doctors decided to take excess skin, cut it in the shape of a nose and place it on his forehead. They also used cartilage from his ribs to place in this shape and soon a new nose would grow. Once the nose has fully grown, the surgeons plan to transplant the nose from the forehead to where his original nose was.
This article really stuck out to me because it seemed like such an unusual thing to be done. I really didn't believe that it could be true, and the picture didn't seem to be real either. As I read the entire article, what they were talking about really started to make sense and made me believe that what they are doing is really true. It really amazed me how we can simply take excess skin and tissue and grow a new nose. It's amazing how much science has evolved over time to the point where we can grow new body parts in order to replace a damaged one.



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