Reconstructive Surgery

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Hours of research by our editors, distilled into minutes of clarity.

  • With no textbooks or antibiotics, this WWI surgeon pioneered facial reconstruction

    New Zealand surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies made extraordinary advances in the field of reconstructive surgery during World War I and after. This 36-minute NPR podcast interviews historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of Gillie's biography, The Facemaker, charting how the good doctor reconstructed the faces of numerous soldiers in an age before antibiotics and plastic surgery as we know it today.

  • Why surgeons implant teeth into eyes

    What if the thing that restored your vision… was your own tooth? That’s exactly what happened to Brent Chapman. After 20 years without sight, a bizarre surgery using his tooth as a lens restored his vision.

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    Why surgeons implant teeth into eyes

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