Diary with a view: Surgeons know how to sew a head
Did you know that plastic surgeons can sew a head back onto a severed body? However, it has one big “but”. “Technically it is possible, but the function (of the head as such and especially the brain) cannot be restored there,” says plastic surgeon Bohumil Zálešák from Olomouc, who hosted the next part of the Deník s nahled videocast.
Plastic surgeon Bohumil Zálešák in the Deník s nahled videocast, moderated by Roman Štěpánek
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Doctor Zálešák says that he never wanted to do plastic surgery. “I started working on hand surgery and found out that without the plastic one, it is very poorly done, that the results are not there,” he recalled the time when he became more interested in the highly specialized and at the same time very popular field.
Many patients can be grateful to Bohumil Zálešák for the fact that they did not lose a limb. “We are able to stitch vessels with a diameter of 0.4 millimeters. In Japan, they can even do from 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters,” the specialist pointed out.
He also recalled a relatively common procedure where doctors can transfer a toe from a foot to a hand. It is mainly about the thumb, which is missing in the grip of the affected patient.
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Although it may seem advertising, the interview also touched on cosmetic surgery. “Attractive people have a better chance of getting a better starting salary,” to show the work and get Zálešák to a general, practice-tested fact.
And as the craziest thing he ever solved?
“For one highly motivated patient, we transferred a quarter of the last joint from the second toe to part of the nail and to the second finger of the hand so that he could do a specific activity,” added Bohumil Zálešák.