How did Plastic Surgery Get Started?

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How did Plastic Surgery Get Started?

• Here are the images we commonly associated with
  plastic surgery.

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Surgery today

• A far cry from how the
• discipline started out.

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WWI creates need for Plastic Surgery

• Dr. Harold Gillies

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The Surgeons Background

• Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He
  studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College,
  Cambridge University, where despite a stiff elbow
  (sustained sliding down the banisters at home as
  a child) he was a rowing blue.
• Gillies married Kathleen Margaret Jackson on 9
  November 1911, in London. They had four children.
  His youngest son Michael Thomas Gillies followed
  his father into medicine.

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Patient One

• English Walter Yeo, the first person to receive
  plastic surgery, before (left) and after(right)
  skin flap surgery performed by Sir Harold Delf
  Gillies in 1917. The pictures of Walter's face
  before the surgery are blurry and hard to come
  by. In the tragic accident he was recorded as
  having lost both his upper and lower eyelids. The
  surgery was some of the first to use a skin flap
  from an unaffected area of the body and paved the
  way for a sudden rash of improvements in this
  field.

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Walter Yeo
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Boardwalk Empire

• Historically accurate account of facial wounds
  not previously survived. Survival due to
  advances in medicine not available prior to WWI.

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More patients
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Successful Surgeries