Doctors from China are set to help a disfigured woman get a new face by having it grown on her chest. Surgeons are expected to cultivate the woman’s nose and mouth using her own tissue before having them transplanted to her face in about a year, according
Doctors from China are set to help a disfigured woman get a new face by having it grown on her chest. Surgeons are expected to cultivate the woman’s nose and mouth using her own tissue before having them transplanted to her face in about a year, according to media.
A doctor tried a 3-D print model on Ye Lv Zi’s face to see the potential result of the surgery Photo:Dailymail
Jin Qi is on the path to recovering her nose and mouth, after losing them when she was just one year old.
The 27-year-old underwent the first of four facial reconstruction surgeries on Monday at Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, in a treatment where tissue for her nose and upper lip will be cultivated on her chest, mainland media reported.
Surgeons also used 3D printing technology to fashion implants to help reconstruct her face.
The team have made life-size models of the patient’s current and potential facial features using 3-D printing technology Photo:Dailymail
Jin lost her nose and upper lip when she was one from a high fever and life-threatening sepsis caused her own autoimmune system to attack her tissues and organs, Xinhua said. Her family had no access to adequate medical resources in the remote village where she was born, in the northwest of Hubei province.
The woman shared her heart-breaking experience growing up with disfigurement in an online post last year. In the post, she used the screen name ‘Ye Lv Zi’.
The post gathered much attention from the public and many people sympathised with the woman, who comes from a remote village in Hubei Province.
Various medical professionals hoped to help the woman reconstruct her face.
The operation, which will cost about 500,000 yuan (£58,000), is due to give the woman a ‘life-changing’ face-lift.
The hospital in Shanghai demonstrated the steps of the operation during a press conference Photo:Dailymail
Doctors are set to help a disfigured woman get a new face by having it grown on her chest.
Surgeons are expected to cultivate the woman’s nose and mouth using her own tissue before having them transplanted to her face in about a year.
Jin’s first surgery lasted more than 10 hours, and involved initial reshaping of her missing facial features. The full course of treatment will take at least six months.
Surgeons check implants on Jin’s face. Photo:SCMP
After 25 years, Jin is hopeful the operations will change her life.
“If this surgery is successful, I will be more confident in front of other people,” she said before entering the operating theatre.
Source:SCMP, DailyMail
