Teenage girl grows new face on her breast

Thanks to pioneering technology and scientific advancement, a Chinese girl with a disfigured face grew a new face on her breast.

Twelve years ago, as a five-year-old, the girl had horribly disfigured her face in a fire that broke out in her fishing village.

According to report in Daily Mail, now, after a wait of more than a decade, the youngster is able to smile after a successful facial reconstruction surgery in Fujian.

Doctors transplanted a blood vessel from Jianmei's leg into her chest and then inserted a water-filled balloon to stretch the skin of her chest. This skin provided the graft for her new face.

The surgery was conducted free of charge as Jianmei’s parents were unable to afford the cost.

“With her new face she will be able to express herself in a more precise way. She will even be able to blush when her emotions change, but it will take a long time,” surgeon Jiang Chenhong told The Daily Mail.

“First we took a piece of blood vessel fascia from her thigh and implanted it in her chest. Then we inserted a skin expander beneath the part of the skin where the blood vessel fascia was planted, so that the part could expand and produce enough skin for her new face,” he added.

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