Not Hair Loss News – Man Has Replacement Nose Growing On His Forehead

Snippet from the article:

A new nose has been grown by surgeons on a patient’s forehead, so it can be transplanted to replace his original one.

Xiaolian, 22, didn’t look after his badly damaged nose following a traffic accident in August 2012. The infection corroded the cartilage of his nose, making it impossible for surgeons to fix it. They then decided to grow him a new one at a hospital in Fuzhou in Fujian province, China.

It was grown by placing a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian’s forehead, cutting it into the shape of a nose and planting cartilage taken from his ribs.

Read the rest — New nose grown by surgeons to replace original one

The article notes that the “forehead skin can be moved to the nose and keep its blood supply“. Check out the photo at the link above.