The woman is treated with radiation therapy and surgery.After World War I ended, many of the surgeons who treated the soldiers during the war started private clinics and began offering their services to the public.After an accident, this woman was left with severe scars across her face and cheeks and was unable to close her eyes.The surgery pictured here repaired this child's cleft palate.Two soldiers with gaping scars on their faces receive skin grafts.A man who has completely lost his jaw in battle receives plastic surgery that molds his face back into something more like what it once was.A child's body after serious burns. His surgeons made a mask of his nose, painted to match his skin color. Butcher receives treatment for his war wounds. It was a new lease on life, proof that injury didn’t have to spell the end.Before-And-After Photos Of Plastic Surgery’s Early DaysBefore-And-After Photos Of Plastic Surgery’s Early DaysMark Oliver is a writer, teacher, and father whose work has appeared on The Onion's StarWipe, Yahoo, and Cracked, and can be found on his U.S. Plastic Surgery of the Face. His eldest son, John Gillies, flew Gillies was a well-known amateur golfer. Sir Harold Delf Gillies OBE FRCS (17 June 1882 – 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand-born, and later London-based, otolaryngologist who is widely considered the father of modern plastic surgery. With a wig, it is impossible to tell that she has ever been wounded.This woman lost much of her lip and sustained injuries to the surrounding area in an accident.The same woman pictured on the previous slide, now after surgery. ISBN 0-906923-08-5 Gillies HD. Gillies and his colleagues treated thousands of people before the war ended. 1629 K St N.W. Medical Director: In 1946, he and a colleague carried out one of the first Gillies made a visit to New Zealand in 1956 after an absence of 51 years. Publikacje. Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Toll free: 1-833-781-7779 Email: help@cosmeticsurgerygrants.org. Others would receive breast augmentations, liposuction, or face lifts.But in the beginning, plastic surgery was the life-saving operation that made it possible for disfigured veterans and victims of horrific injuries to attempt to forge on. The patient is pictured here on the left with the mask off, and on the right with mask on .Doctors would use masks particularly to cover areas near the eye. Henry Frowde. Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Millard DR. Some had been burned by mustard gas and others left greatly disfigured by gunfire.
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The photos are part of a new book, Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery Andrea Downey 26 Sep 2017, 12:21 It helped repair the damage that had been done, hiding his disfiguration and letting him close his eyes at night once more.But it didn’t stop with Yeo. Some lost entire sections of their faces.When jaws and eyes were missing, the doctors made plaster masks -- sometimes held in place with a pair of spectacles -- that patients could wear to conceal the damage.When the war ended, Gillies and his cousin, Archibald McIndoe, took their work to the public. Yeo was a sailor who had been horribly burned in combat. This child has already received several operations, but his body remains seriously scarred.With so much work already done on the boy (from the previous slide), the plastic surgeon doesn't have much skin to use for grafting. This mold will be adjusted and placed on his face to hide his disfigurements.A patient at Maryland's Walter Reed General Hospital poses with a plaster cast mask made of his face, date unspecified.This patient received a reconstructive chin operation involving a custom molded mask. They had four children. With the world at war, medical science made some incredible leaps that would change plastic surgery forever.Sir Harold Gillies, a doctor from New Zealand, pioneered the early techniques. The medical procedure would change a person’s life – not by giving them a little extra confidence, but by making it possible to walk outside again.On some level, plastic surgery has been around for thousands of years – but the idea really got started during World War I, when doctors performed the first skin graft. Sir Harold Gillies, a doctor from New Zealand, pioneered the early techniques. Butterworth. By taking skin from his cheeks, the doctors were able to reconstruct his nose.This man's face was completely destroyed. This rapidly proved inadequate and a new hospital devoted to facial repairs was developed at Between the wars Gillies developed a substantial private practice with Instead of retiring at the end of the Second World War Gillies had to keep working as he had insufficient savings.