How WWI Changed Facial Surgery

Do you know how war changed how faces are made. Not with weapons… but with surgery.

World War One didn’t invent plastic surgery. But machine guns and shrapnel destroyed faces on a scale

never seen before. For the first time, thousands of soldiers survived— alive,

but unrecognizable. Doctors had no choice but to innovate. Surgeons like Dr. Harold Gillies developed

new ways to rebuild faces— techniques still used today. And when surgery

wasn’t enough, artists painted lifelike masks so soldiers could face the world again..

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