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The ultra-fine, 3D scaffold, which is made from specially-developed polymers derived from polylac... Scaffold surgery...

The ultra-fine, 3D scaffold, which is made from specially-developed polymers derived from polylactic acid, resembles tissue paper but has fibres 100 times finer.

Before being placed on the wound, via a biopsy, the patient's skin cells are introduced and attach themselves to the scaffold, multiplying until they eventually grow over it. This is then placed over the wound and after six ...

By her early 50s, Dorene Polcyn was growing weary of her battle against time. Every six weeks, sh... Wrinkles worked out of fil

By her early 50s, Dorene Polcyn was growing weary of her battle against time. Every six weeks, she would drive to a dermatologist's office and plop down $375 for an injection of collagen to fill in and smooth wrinkles on her face.

"The collagen didn't last that long. And I was tired of the expense," says the Los Angeles woman, now 60.

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Eight-year-old Sabaa Faik has been in Pittsburgh only a week, but she will not return to her Bagh... Surgery helps girl, show&#

Eight-year-old Sabaa Faik has been in Pittsburgh only a week, but she will not return to her Baghdad home the same person.

The doctors at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Uptown, who fixed Sabaa's severely cleft palate during a five-hour surgery Tuesday morning, dramatically changed her life and also her father's impression of the United States.

"This has changed my perception of thi...

Seven months after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, a French woman continues... French Face Transplant Pati

Seven months after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, a French woman continues to improve, doctors said in the first detailed account of her surgery, published Monday with dramatic before-and-after pictures.

Isabelle Dinoire, 38, was severely disfigured in May 2005 by her pet Labrador. She received the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation on ...

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Seven months after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, a French woman continues to improve, doctors said in the first detailed account of her surgery, published Monday with dramatic before-and-after pictures.

Isabelle Dinoire, 38, wa...

When I was about 20, my mum and my stepdad came into my room, sat me down and said they had somet... Why do women want to look

When I was about 20, my mum and my stepdad came into my room, sat me down and said they had something serious to tell me. I was terrified. I thought they were about to say they were getting divorced. What could be so important that they both had to sit me down to talk? "We think you're really pretty," they said, "but you'd be beautiful if you had your nose fixed."

I was shocked. I certa...

Sharon Osbourne Fights Urge to Have More Plastic Surgery Osbourne fans everywhere are talk... Sharon Osbourne Fights Urge to H

Sharon Osbourne Fights Urge to Have More Plastic Surgery

Osbourne fans everywhere are talking about Sharon Osbourne's incredible new look. But it's not just her new hairstyle that has heads turning; now the rock matriarch is making a shocking cosmetic confession.

"I've had my face done so many times, I can't have it done again," she revealed.

After a surgical history tha...