In July 2011, Jeremy Antscherl, a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon specialising in facial trauma tackled one of the toughest stages of the Tour de France to raise funds for the new National Facial Injury and Disease Study Centre.
After the success of last year’s Saving Faces – Sponsored Family Bike Ride, we’re back for another lap (or 20!).
Some images from the 2nd Faces Exhibition, held at Guy’s Hospital. This free exhibition will be running for one more week (til 13th May) so don’t miss your chance to come along and see this collection of wonderful and thought provoking images.
Atrium 2, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital, London Bridge, SE1 9R.
As surgeons prepare for the first British face transplant, Laura Donnelly of the Telegraph examines the controversy behind the procedure and speaks to Prof Iain Hutchison of Saving Faces.
Browse our photos from the launch of the “Faces” art exhibition on the 18th of February. Tickets are now available for “Faces 2” which is running from the 8th of April to the 13th of May at Guy’s Hospital. Tickets are available here.
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.
The annual Life Search Charity Night Party at London’s Papermill Bar raised £6,470 (and still climbing!) for Saving Faces . Tim Heming is a Sports Journalist with The Sun and he nominated Saving Faces as the charity of the night.
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.
NHS Choices
NHS Choices is the online ‘front door’ to the NHS. It is the country’s biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health.
Saving Faces’ research and patients are featured on this website.
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.