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A photograph of Walter Yeo in 1917, showing his face before (left) and after the tube pedicle flap reconstruction of his face (right).. Walter Ernest O'Neil Yeo (20 October 1890 – December 1960) was an English sailor in the First World War, who is thought to have been one of the first people to benefit from advanced plastic surgery, namely a skin flap.
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife is a TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about the people and doctors involved in plastic surgery operations. Filmed mostly in the US, in the programme, Louis himself ends up getting liposuction .
Gillies caricatured in Punch's Personalities by George Belcher, 1929. Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Member of Parliament in Otago, Robert Gillies. [3] He attended Whanganui Collegiate School and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where despite a stiff elbow sustained sliding down the banisters at home as a child, he was an excellent sportsman.
The first American plastic surgeon was John Peter Mettauer, who, in 1827, performed the first cleft palate operation with instruments that he designed himself. Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach established many modern techniques of reconstructive surgery. Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach specialized in skin transplantation and early plastic surgery.
Gaspare Tagliacozzi (his last name has also been spelled Taliacotius, Tagliacoze or Tagliacozzio; [1] Bologna, March 1545 – Bologna, 7 November 1599) was an Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
A Thai court will sentence Thursday a Spanish film star's son charged with murdering and dismembering a Colombian plastic surgeon he met online. ... The trial heard that Sancho had placed parts of ...
Gurdon Buck (May 4, 1807 – March 6, 1877) was a pioneering military plastic surgeon during the Civil War. He is known for being the first doctor to incorporate pre- and post-operative photographs into his publications. Buck's fascia and Buck's extension are both named after him.
A Thai court jailed a famous Spanish actor's son for life for the grisly murder of a Colombian plastic surgeon on a tropical holiday island in a lurid case that has gripped Spain.