English to Polish Medical Medical (general) Plastic surgery

He then took a piece of cartilage from below one of S.’s ribs and shaped it like an arrowhead so that it would eventually give lateral support to the wings of the nose that form the nostrils. Gillies implanted this into S.’s forehead near the hairline, where it remained for six months. Next, he created a skin-graft inlay to supply a future nasal lining and placed this below the cartilage. After establishing a viable blood supply, Gillies swung the cartilage and skin-graft inlay downward to construct the bridge of S.’s nose.