A 22-year-old Chinese man needed a new nose. Instead of a transplant, a surgeon built a new nose on his forehead.
The nose was built from cartilage taken from the man's ribs, then put under the skin of his forehead so it could grow before it gets placed in between his eyes.
The process of expanding the man's skin took three months. The surgeon compared his work to that of a carpenter, because he sculpted it three-dimensionally.
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