A badly disfigured teenage girl from China's Fujian province had a new face grown on her chest by doctors.According to a report in International Business Times, Xu Jianmei was disfigured by a fire when she was five years old.
The 17-year-old lost her chin, eyelids and an ear in the blaze. As her parents were poor, she was not able to undergo plastic surgery.But a breakthrough surgery enabled the girl to smile for the first time in 12 years after doctors succeeded in growing a new face on her chest, then performing a face transplant.The surgery involved using a blood vessel from her leg and a water-filled balloon to expand her skin. The new face was then "grown" for several months until it was large enough to cover her missing facial features.Her family did not have to pay for the procedure.
According to her surgeon, Jiang Chenhong, the eight-hour operation would enable Xu to express herself more precisely."She will even be able to blush when her emotions change, but it will take a long time," he said."First, we took a piece of blood vessel fascia from her thigh and implanted it in her chest. Then we inserted a skin expander beneath the part of skin where the blood vessel fascia was planted, so that the part could expand and produce enough skin for her new face."
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