Click on the link to read an article in the Financial Times on Helena Kennedy who is one of our patrons and wife of Professor Iain Hutchison.
“For three years, she had to put up with cruel taunts because of a condition that left her with a bright red ‘clown nose’ just weeks after she was born”Connie’s “clown nose” was a benign tumour called a haemangioma, made up of a cluster of blood vessels growing abnormally under the skin. After being told that there was no cure, Connie’s mother sought out Saving Faces founder and chief executive, Prof Iain Hutchison. He spent two hours removing the tumour, to give Connie a nose “just like mum’s”.
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.
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
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Saving Faces’ research and patients are featured on this website.