WW1 Faces

[Snoogins]

Poor buggers, especially the RAF chap with the melted face.

<-- resized for avatar if anyone wants

[brookeslone08]

what are those big skin pieces? i dont really get the point of the tubes of skin

[Snoogins]

If I remember correctly the big skin pieces are skin grafts, usually from other parts of the body (places like the buttocks are common)

The tubes of skin connect the grafts to veins so they get blood supply, otherwise the grafts would not survive and would just die from lack of blood like a frostbitten or gangrenous finger.

[ruralokie]

I think death would have been a better result for these poor ugly fucks

[needved]

WOW...! thats awesome but if someone ask me uhmmm, lets each one of this guys enter alone to a room with a mirror, seconds later give him a gun, dont worry people he knows what next to do

[BellyDancinB]

Too bad for set 4 picture 4.. he might have been hot. (no pun intended)

[jichaelmackson]

what was the site these pics came from

[redheadchicka13]

god, these just remind me of this little girl i saw today at work, she had this giant ass....growth or somthing on her nose, right by her eye, i don't know what it was, but it was big and weird, it literally looked like a mini volcano on her face, like, it had a hole in the middle of it and everything, i felt really bad for her.

[Snoogins]

The surgeon responsible for these techniques is Harold Gillies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...tle/html/1.stm

World War I was unlike any conflict before or since.

It was the first fully mechanised war, and the advent of heavy artillery, shells and machine guns meant more devastating injuries than ever before could be inflicted.

At the same time, the fighting was mostly in trenches which provided protection for men’s bodies, but left their heads exposed.

New Zealander Gillies saw the results of this lethal combination first hand when he was posted to the Western Front in 1915.

Guinea Pigs



Harold Gillies (pictured) was knighted in 1930 and even went on to perform the first female to male gender reassignment in 1946.

He also helped train his distant cousin and fellow surgeon Archibald McIndoe who became a plastic surgery pioneer in his own right.

During World War II, McIndoe famously performed reconstructive surgery on British airmen who had been badly burned.

His incredible and often experimental work earned them the nickname the Guinea Pig Club.

Techniques

Rebuilding faces

Traditionally, the edges of facial wounds were simply stitched together, but when scar tissue contracted faces were left twisted and disfigured.

Gillies did something different. He rebuilt faces using tissue from elsewhere in the body.

Today we think of breast implants and nose jobs, but plastic surgery had its birth in the wounded faces of veterans.

Dr Andrew Bamji, the Gillies archive curator, says: "He was prepared to try anything. He wouldn't give up."

Tubed pedicle

Antibiotics had not yet been invented, meaning it was very hard to graft tissue from one part of the body to another because infection often developed.

Gillies invented the “tubed pedicle”. This used a flap of skin from the chest or forehead and “swung” it into place over the face.

The flap remained attached but was stitched into a tube. This kept the original blood supply intact and dramatically reduced the infection rate.

Staged grafts



Gillies couldn't help everyone, but he learned from every case.

One of those was Henry Ralph Lumley whose face was horrifically burned. The Sidcup team tried a very advanced facial graft using a large flap of skin from Lumley's chest to try to repair it.

Sadly he didn't survive. Gillies realised he had tried too much, too quickly, and from then on carried out staged grafts.

This gradual rebuilding process forms the basis of the technique still followed today.

[Snoogins]

http://www.projectfacade.com/index.php?/case/

[iquesti0nauthority]

Wow its amazing how far cosmetic surgery has come... with the exception of Dr Jan of course...

[Cheloluis2003]

Great work my friend. Download all pictures

[thomas]

Thanks

another great post

[rosalynd]

them faces make me feel sick

[Dancy*Anzy]

how sad im going to myself in a doctor tomorrow and i hope they dont saw my finger off,because it´s very badly damaged