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Show MAKING A FACE ON A YOUNG MAN Nose and Lips Had Been Cut Off in a Saw- GRAFTING SUCCESSFUL One Lip Already Formed and the Nose Is Next in Order. Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 3. With a part of his forearm substituting for H new lips. Ross Allen, a young Ca- H nadian, at a hospital here, seems' to 'H be in a favorable way to have practic- iH ally the whole of his face newly H j shaped. Allen entered the hospital about two months ago with his face H disfigured from an accident in a saw- H mill five years previously. His nose H and lips were missing. A section of H flesh shaped to the form of lower lip H was cut on his forearm early In No- :H vember and a grafting juncture made with the lip base. The arm was 'H bound about the head until the graft- H ing was complete. This consumed H about two weeks. When, sufficient 1 adherence having taken place, the H lip section was severed from the arm and the Up shaped. H The same procedure was followed ll in the upper lip ' treatment, a section H of the arm flesh being grafted across H the upper gum and the arm strapped jH to Allen's head and shoulders until H this section, too, had taken hold. JB When Allen accumulates sufficient H strength for another operation, the ! surgeons will try to build him a new iH nose It Is planned to cut away a jH piece of healthy cartilage from one of jH the ribs at the junction with the jH breastbone, shape it to the form of a nose with the nostril openings and H insert it In place of the missing or- H gan. The skin, which vn ill have been H previously silt for the insertion of the ll substitute bone, is then to be drawn il over the bone and healing awaited iH It Is expected that the cartilage will adhere to the facial bones and H in time become an integral part of Jfl the skull structure. Several months 1 will be needed for the complete op- iH |