Sacrifice fireworks back half his face with your foot

US doctors performed facial reconstruction of a young man who was disfigured because of an accident with fireworks. To do this, they needed to take the part of his leg bone.

A talented jazz musician 22-year-old Taron Pounds in July this year in the house of his mother arranged a party with fireworks. At some point, pyrotechnics tore right into the hands of Man, and the charge hit him in the left side of the face. When after a while Taron mother saw him in the hospital, she could not find her son.

The young man was seriously injured on the nose, eyes, and neck on the left side of the face, which is literally blown off by the explosion. Doctors said Taron native, he insanely lucky to survive after that. But to stay on all the rest of his life was disfigured for a guy worse than death, because his life has just begun.

And then the doctors at the hospital conducted a unique 22-hour operation facial reconstruction During which benefited from part of the leg bones and skin of the patient. While plastic surgeons involved in recreating the face, vascular transplanted new blood vessels, which were to nourish the transplanted tissue.

"The patient is lost due to the accident most of the bone that holds and stabilizes the middle of the face, as well as a significant proportion of the bones of the nose and cheeks supporting the left eye, the base of the mouth and teeth - said plastic surgeon Dr. Trinita Cannon. - We had to transplant new just a piece of bone from one part of the body to another. It was like the folding of a puzzle, because I had to find the "right hand" Now things went smoothly, and the psychological state of the patient promotes physical recovery. "

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