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 |  Subject: ~~Man's dented head reshaped using his own body fat..~~  Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:56 am | |
|  Man's dented head reshaped using his own body fat..
A man who was left with a large dent in his head after a fall has had his face rebuilt through pioneering surgery using his own body fat.
In the first procedure of its kind in Britain, Tim Barter, 32, had his forehead reshaped using fat from his stomach and titanium plates.
The visual effects supervisor, who worked on the BBC’s Dr Who television series, shattered his skull, cheekbone and eye socket after he fell 25ft from a drainpipe and hit his head on a brick wall.
The accident, which happened as he tried climb into his house after locking himself out, left him in a coma for 10 days.
Doctors had to remove part of his skull on the right side of his head to relieve swelling and bleeding on his brain.
However, he has now made a full recovery after pioneering treatment by Robert Bentley, a cranio-oral and maxillofacial surgeon from London’s King’s College Hospital... | |
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