The Saving Faces debate on The Face and Reconstruction, which took place on 4th March 2008 at the Southbank Centre attracted considerable media interest. The panel consisted of eminent surgeons, psychologists, and scientists, including Professor Bernard Devauchelle, who lead the world’s first face transplant operation in 2005. Prof Iain Hutchison, founder of Saving Faces, chaired the debate.
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Saving Faces’ public debate on facial transplantation, tissue engineering and the impact on identity
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Saving Faces is organising a public debate on The Face and Reconstruction, which takes place on 4th March 2008.
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Saving Faces’ initiative to reduce underage binge drinking, Telegraph Magazine, 2007
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The role of selective neck dissection in early oral cancer treatment (SEND study)
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Update 17/10/2019: The results of the SEND study is published in the British Journal of Cancer and has been recommended in the F1000 Prime as being of special significance in its field.
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Saving Faces researchers have made great progress with the multi-centre mouth cancer trial, SEND, an acronym for selective elective neck dissection.
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Steve Clarke from Tabor School in Braintree, Essex talked about the Saving Faces smoking project in schools.
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Following Prof Iain Hutchison’s talk to pupils at a secondary school about the danger warnings of smoking and mouth cancer, Toby Warmington is desperate to stop smoking.
They should show this talk to the younger children when they are just starting secondary school, so they can be caught before they even start to smoke. – Toby Warmington
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Saving Faces’ public debate on stem cell research with internationally renowned speakers, 25th May 2005
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Join us at our 2005 public debate with internationally renowned speakers on the topic of stem cell research on 25th May 2005.
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The Saving Faces smoking prevention study featured in The Independent.
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Face cancer shocks for child smokers
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Saving Faces launches a de Lotbinière Facial Surgery Research Centre in memory of Henry de Lotbinière.
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BMA news 24.07.2004 -Putting heads together