Chinese surgeon builds new nose on man's forehead

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Surgeon Guo Zhihui spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged.

A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind. Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China's southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged. The striking images of the implant - with the nostril section facing diagonally upward on the left side of the man's forehead - drew widespread publicity after they began to circulate in Chinese media this week. Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.

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