March 1998
Practice Makes Perfect
By Mark Hodges
The surgeon studies the face of a teenage boy whose upper jaw and cheek were destroyed by cancer years ago. Lifting his gloved right hand, he points to an area just below one of the patient's eyes. As if by magic, an incision appears in the boy's cheek, revealing the area of tissue and bone to be rebuilt. Pointing again, the surgeon begins a complicated procedure for transplanting bone and tissue from the boy's hip to his face.
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