Battling Graham gets his life back – Eversham Journal, 21 Feb 2011

Graham hailed as "an inspiration" after a 4 year battle with cancer

Saving Faces patient, Graham Hall has been hailed as “an inspiration” in the Eversham Journal. Graham, a lorry driver from Bretforton in Worcestershire suffered from a rare form of bone cancer which left doctors with no choice but to remove his jaw. After the surgery and rounds of radiotherapy, he was left disfigured and unable to speak.

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Regina’s Story, BBC Inside Out, 6 Decemeber 2010

Saving Faces has been involved in the treatment of a young girl with a large facial tumour.

Matthew Wright follows her emotional journey as she undergoes complex surgery to have it removed.

Regina’s story is featured on BBC’s Inside Out London at 7.30 on 6th December.

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Saving Faces Artwork to feature in new exhibition

The exhibition Skin Deep at the Surgeons’ Hall Museums in Edinburgh runs from the 6th August 2010 to April 2011.


It explores the effects of cosmetic changes and disfigurements to the face and looks at the historic attempts to reconstruct or alter the face to make people ‘acceptable’ in society. The influence of war and punishment, and the resulting injuries and innovations are also charted in this exhibition  and this includes McIndoe’s Guinea Pig Club.  An attempt is made to discover the personal reasons behind surgery and what effect surgery can have on the psychology of the patient. The Saving Faces art exhibition is featured as an electronic presentation. The stories and images bring out the psychological impact on patients and represents the patients’ view of facial surgery. 

Photos of Saving Faces Cycle Event

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Official Photos of Saving Faces Cycle Event Now Available

Saving Faces supporter and professional photographer, Scott Balfour, has generously donated his time and skills and we are pleased to announce that his photographs of the Saving Faces Cycle Day are now available to view on-line click here.

Scott has been working hard to re-frame and digitally enhance the photos. The complete set of high resolution images, is now available to buy on a CD for £25. You can share these beautiful electronic images with friends and family, display them in a digital photo frame, print and frame your favourites or use them to make gifts, such as cards or puzzles to name just a few of the options available.

 

You can purchase the CD online or if you prefer you may send us a cheque for £25 with your name and address to

Saving Faces,
St Bartholomew’s Hospital,
West Smithfield,
London,
EC1A 7BE

 

When purchasing through Just Giving please ensure that you provide your full postal address.

Please note that this is a purchase and thus not eligible for Gift Aid

With best wishes,

The Saving Faces Team

Saving Faces Family Bike Ride 2010

Jon Snow cycled 25 miles

The sponsored family bike ride was a huge success. We certainly could not have asked for better weather. We would like to thank everyone involved with this event – the cyclists, those of you who were unable to join in, but generously sponsored your relatives, friends or Iain and his colleagues and last, but by no means least of course, all the helpers. You are all wonderful and we have raised lots of money which is still coming in. We will give you the final amount as soon as we have it.

Professor Hutchison completed his 50 miles. His online sponsorship page is still open to receive donations

http://www.justgiving.com/Iain-Hutchison

 

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Iain Hutchison setting off on his 50 mile ride

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Ruby Wax, Kathy Lette and Jon Snow awarding medals and T shirts

Prof Hutchison on Hardtalk BBC

Surgeons in Spain have carried out the world’s first full- face transplant. The achievement is remarkable, but also controversial. The ongoing medical treatment required by face transplant patients may leave them vulnerable to other illnesses and to psychological problems concerning their identity.

Stephen Sackur talks to reconstructive surgeon Iain Hutchison about whether transplant surgery is really the best way to help people who have been facially disfigured and disabled.

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Pioneering Facial Reconstruction by Saving Faces surgeon

Pioneering reconstructive surgery has been carried out by maxillofacial surgeon Simon Holmes, a Saving Faces’ trustee and a colleague of the founder of the charity, Professor Iain Hutchison.

Two brothers were set upon by a gang and were both bludgeoned unconscious. They needed expert surgery to put their torn-apart faces back together. David was so horribly injured that half of his face was caved in after he suffered a broken cheekbone, jaw shattered in six places, broken palate and fractured teeth. His brother’s eye socket caved in after he was hit.

A team of doctors at the maxillofacial surgical unit at the Royal London Hospital, led by consultant Simon Holmes, carried out a four-and-a-half hour operation on David to rebuild the right side of his face.

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