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80 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates ; 19 cm

The face and its improvement by aesthetic plastic surgery / by Charles H. Willi.

Medical Heritage Library

5-231 pages : illustrations, plates. ; 24 cm

A text-book of surgical principles and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws : for dental students / by H. Horace Grant.

Rhinoplasty and restoration of facial contour : with special reference to trauma / by Jacques W. Malinac.

Documentary looking at the realm of facial transplantation surgery. In Amiens, France, November 2005, Isabelle Dinoire had a partial face transplantation. Professor Guo Shuzhong China's leading plastic surgeon at Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, has a ward full of patients with severe facial disfigurements. He is very keen to perform a full facial transplantation and takes on the case of Li Guoxing who was terribly disfigured after being attacked by a bear in 2004. He needs a full face transplantation including the bones of the nose - the 18-hour surgery is shown in some detail. Li returns to his village home but it is clear that the remote location will be difficult for him to gain access to the kind of medication he needs. Two years after his surgery his face begins to reject the transplanted tissue as he has not been taking the medication necessary to suppress his immune response to the new tissue. Reportedly, Li died last year. The documentary also brings us up to date with Isabelle Dinoire, 2.5 years after her surgery as she receives facial physiotherapy.

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The man with someone else's face.

Operation Servant is run by a group of volunteers who have been performing humanitarian reconstructive surgery in poor countries for the past 25 years. Dr Cataldo is a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery. In his early career he developed techniques for plastic mitral valve replacement under the guidance of Prof Rene Favaloro, the world renowned inventor of coronary artery bypass surgery. He started his studies of the head and face with Prof Daniel Marchac at the Necker Childrens' Hospital in Paris, where he was Prof Marchac's sole personal assistant. In addition to performing hundreds of cranio-facial reconstructions for all pathologies and malformations of the head, he also practiced all forms of cosmetic surgery, including face lifts, blepharoplasty, breast augmentation and reduction, Lipofi lling, Fillers. He worked alongside Prof Jean Marie Servant for 30 years at the renowned Department of Plastic Surgery in the Saint Louis Hospital, University of Paris, where he received a comprehensive education in general plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. Over the past 18 years, Dr Cataldo, together with Prof Servant, has undertaken research into facial reconstruction necessitated by the devastating disease Noma (cancrum oris). Today, these years of study allow a better understanding of the progression of a disease which, until recently, was almost unknown to the general public. Important advances in facial reconstruction and the approaches employed have improved the quality of life for hundreds of patients, and led to new techniques. These studies are recognised world-wide and serve as a reference for all kinds of facial reconstruction for the future. Dr Cataldo has invented a new technique for the reconstruction of the neck and lower part of the face (face and neck lifting). In 2010, after hundreds of operations with excellent results. these techniques were presented at the University of Tokyo. In 2014, after nomination by 125 colleagues, Dr Cataldo received the Doctor of the Year Award at international level at the University of Buenos Aires. He still works and studies new techniques for facial reconstruction at the University of Paris. Today, he is invited all over the world to operate on children and adults, not only for reconstructions, but also for aesthetic interventions.

Facial reconstructive surgery in humanitarian missions / Daniel Cataldo ; photographs by Nicolás Bruant.

xiv, 468 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (8vo)

Traité sur l'art de restaurer les difformités de la face, selon la méthode francaise par déplacement, ou méthode française [et] Atlas de 30 planches representant 120 figures / Par M. Serre.

"Faces from the Front examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not necessarily lead to death due to developments in anaesthesia and improvements in the treatment of infection and blood loss."--From synopsis.

212 pages, xxiv pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

Faces from the front : Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery / Andrew Bamji.

Plastic surgery of the nose, ear and face / by Victor Frühwald.

xvi, 195 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 13 leaves of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 22 cm

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The face and its improvement by aesthetic plastic surgery / by Charles H. Willi.

A text-book of surgical principles and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws : for dental students / by H. Horace Grant.

Rhinoplasty and restoration of facial contour : with special reference to trauma / by Jacques W. Malinac.

The man with someone else's face.

Facial reconstructive surgery in humanitarian missions / Daniel Cataldo ; photographs by Nicolás Bruant.

Traité sur l'art de restaurer les difformités de la face, selon la méthode francaise par déplacement, ou méthode française [et] Atlas de 30 planches representant 120 figures / Par M. Serre.

Faces from the front : Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery / Andrew Bamji.

Plastic surgery of the nose, ear and face / by Victor Frühwald.

Face and foot deformities / by Frederick Churchill.

The surgical treatment of disfigurements and deformities of the face / by John B. Roberts.

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The face and its improvement by aesthetic plastic surgery / by Charles H. Willi.

A text-book of surgical principles and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws : for dental students / by H. Horace Grant.

Rhinoplasty and restoration of facial contour : with special reference to trauma / by Jacques W. Malinac.

The man with someone else's face.

Facial reconstructive surgery in humanitarian missions / Daniel Cataldo ; photographs by Nicolás Bruant.

Traité sur l'art de restaurer les difformités de la face, selon la méthode francaise par déplacement, ou méthode française [et] Atlas de 30 planches representant 120 figures / Par M. Serre.

Faces from the front : Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery / Andrew Bamji.

Plastic surgery of the nose, ear and face / by Victor Frühwald.

Face and foot deformities / by Frederick Churchill.

The surgical treatment of disfigurements and deformities of the face / by John B. Roberts.

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