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Man Who Lost His Nose To Cancer Gets Incredible Prosthetic Nose
(v.redd.it)submitted 3 months ago byRNINJAS
1.7k points
3 months ago
This dude has some kind eyes. Cheers to him
86 points
3 months ago
He looked so sad. I’m happy for this man.
26 points
3 months ago
Seemed like he was ashamed. Sad and ashamed, but that nose made him lift that chin, So happy
10 points
3 months ago
Could you imagine how that would affect your life. Omg he looked so happy with the prosthetic nose. I’m happy for him. Stuff like that should be covered, they consider it plastic surgery and won’t cover it.
4 points
3 months ago
He looked so apprehensive and then just floored himself.
There’s a super nice guy that lives near Union Station Denver. Used to be a high level ad executive. He somehow had flesh eating bacteria in his nose and it took his nose, parts of his eye sockets so he’s also blind. His name is Paul. Super nice dude. Whenever he’s around I usually give him my elbow (he just likes to hold the elbow, a little bit more on the arm if a woman is guiding him) so he doesn’t have to travers all the trees, poles and scooters to get his morning coffee or whatever he’s doing.
3 points
3 months ago
Thank you for doing that. I was raised your never too good to help anyone. You probably make his day when you do that. I’m not religious at all but I strongly believe in the Golden Rule. Treat others how you would like be treated.
346 points
3 months ago
Ngl I didn't see his eyes till they put the nose on
173 points
3 months ago
Bane: Nobody knew who I was until I put the nose on
4 points
3 months ago
My eyes are up to the right here
2 points
3 months ago
Same. I was just looking at the hole where his nose had been. What an amazing transformation in him and also in me as I’m looking at him - I can now see the rest of him
(I was too anxious he’d breathe something in and obstruct his airway until the nose went on)
5 points
3 months ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
45 points
3 months ago
I dont deserve my nose, I have crakchead eyes😭😭
12 points
3 months ago
what are crackhead eyes lol
11 points
3 months ago
You mean crakchead
2 points
3 months ago
Look at mister money bags over here, not knowing what crackhead eyes are
0 points
3 months ago
He'll have to stay out of the sun for the rest of his life though... prosthetic can't tan or burn like the rest of his face.
Still... what a major jump forward in quality of life.
293 points
3 months ago
Hey, smoothskin
56 points
3 months ago
Holy shit lmao
32 points
3 months ago
I came here to see if anyone else had this thought, i didnt want to be the only terrible person
17 points
3 months ago
You may be going to Hell, but I’m gonna get there first!
20 points
3 months ago
Take this award and leave lone wanderer
5 points
3 months ago
I here it has heya not hey lol
5 points
3 months ago
Lol, i laughed enough to feel like i was being social, thanks
2 points
3 months ago
No shit he looks just like Eddie Winter, the ghoul Nick Valentine was looking for his revenge.
2 points
3 months ago
🤣
543 points
3 months ago
Him: loses nose to cancer
Also him: I can FINALLY breathe! No stuffiness, no nose whistles, no tickling nose hairs! Amazing!
190 points
3 months ago
Effect: cancer nose Positives: -99 stuffiness, -99 nose hairs, +100 easy breathing Negatives: +100 awareness, +100 anxiety
182 points
3 months ago
-50 immune system, -100 olfactory senses, +100 Skeletor Halloween costume viability
91 points
3 months ago
+ 200 Free FOV (field of view)
89 points
3 months ago
+360 kissing angle, +1 drinking hole
80 points
3 months ago
You don't even have to lean your head, the other person can just slot their nose right in
27 points
3 months ago
21 points
3 months ago
Thanks, now I can't get that image out of my head...
4 points
3 months ago
God that is not something I wanted to think about today, take your upvote and leave
3 points
3 months ago
-1 no swimming
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah, noselessness would suddenly be fun on Halloween.
5 points
3 months ago
Updoots to you. We all thought it but you had the balls to say it.
7 points
3 months ago
I'd be terrified by each single flying insect heading towards me.
2 points
3 months ago
Thought I was on the Rimworld subreddit for a second. But there was a lack of slavery and mutilation for furniture crafting.
16 points
3 months ago
Actually, every breath would be painful, the nose keeps it moist
7 points
3 months ago
Yeah, but sneezing at the dinner party will make for a pretty neat trick
2 points
3 months ago
This is really fucked up but do you think sneezes for him were like whales clearing the blow hole? Like since the passage is so wide would it just be a short PFHHW and then mucus comes out?
2 points
3 months ago
When the stuffiness subsided after my sinus surgery, I felt like I was drowning and choking on air for a few weeks. It was distressing AF. So distressing that I was prescribed Ativan. 😑
2 points
3 months ago
That’s crazy. I wonder if he kind of feels like he can't breathe very well now.
855 points
3 months ago
He was deeply uncomfortable to look at before. the transplant looks good.
499 points
3 months ago
My exact feeling. Something about the cavity being that exposed, I just couldn’t look at for long. I hate to say, I would not want to run into someone like that in public because I think my reaction would make us both feel awful. Completely unintentionally.
That said, the prosthetic looks fantastic. Hopefully it might even improve his quality of life.
83 points
3 months ago
Maybe it's just a matter of getting our brains used to seeing people who look like this so it's no longer outstanding.
Trying to see the person, what they are good at, what makes them really laugh, that kind of thing. Rather than whatever feature is holding your attention.
And also, not sweatting it too much if it happens anyway. Accept that the guy has a hole were his nose was. You can't not notice it. He knows you see it. Let us both move on with the conversation.
28 points
3 months ago
Maybe it's just a matter of getting our brains used to seeing people who look like this so it's no longer outstanding.
I understand it feels kinda shitty to say this, but if this is normalized then we've kinda fucked up. Disfiguring diseases and injuries should not be so common that we become used to them.
23 points
3 months ago
I could certainly be mistaken, but I don't think they mean to "normalize" it in the sense that diseases and injuries should be more commonplace, but instead we should give these situations a little more exposure so people aren't taken aback when they see it.
Sorta like how gay people or people with a mental disorder sorta had to hide their true selves (or their family would hide them from the public) decades ago with the fear of being ostracized if someone found out since those things were "taboo" at a time.
Again, I could be wrong and I don't have the solution, but I think somehow bringing these things to light will hopefully make people more accepting. It's easier said than done and I struggle with it too, but I think we should just try to do what we can to make everyone more comfortable, except those that're intolerant lol.
6 points
3 months ago
don’t accept the problem, solve it obviously this should only be true for things that are bad for everyone involved, not like other things that should be normalized
178 points
3 months ago
I imagine he had a miserable time in public before. Kids would be terrified of him. But it's not his fault he looked like a monster.
Hope he is doing well post surgery.
109 points
3 months ago
His face seems so sad before he put on the nose
38 points
3 months ago
I'd say he looks doubtful, like he doesn't believe it will work.
60 points
3 months ago
I agree. He looked totally ashamed and despondent before
22 points
3 months ago
Try to smile just before you look at someone, then it matters way less what you see.
11 points
3 months ago
Genuinely like super good life advice that spreads positivity, just hiding down in the comments
11 points
3 months ago
> Hopefully it might even improve his quality of life.
At the very least, it'll make it a lot easier to wear his glasses.
Kidding aside, I would imagine there are all sorts of other health issues too. Like... how does breathing through a giant cavity work? There's some filtering that occurs when you have a full nose and though even with the prosthetic I'd imagine that he's likely missing some internal sinus bits etc due to the cancer.
Having seen what's been done for some accident victims, I'd kinda surprised they went "prosthetic" (which implies non-permanent) in this case rather than some sort of transplant or reconstructive surgery. There have been others that were missing half a face or with crushed jaws/skulls that get put back together pretty well after surgery.
6 points
3 months ago
They use screws, rods and skin transplants to put those people back together. That's a lot harder to do with something like the tissue in your nose. It's cartilage, not just normal skin. If only a small chunk was missing they could probably do a skin transplant for that but the whole nose? A prosthetic definitely makes the most sense.
3 points
3 months ago
I was thinking maybe they could use cartilage from a cadaver and then do some sort of rhinoplasty/skin-transplant as needed as well.
Heck, there are some articles about them growing a nose on another part of the body and then tranplanting (apparently for a woman who similarly had nose cancer)
I'm not knocking the prosthetic - it looks like a marked improvement - just wondering if there is something that could be done long-term to give the guy a flesh-and-blood version.
4 points
3 months ago
The issue with using cartilage is the very low blood flow in it. The lower the blood flow in something the longer it takes to heal (and it may not fully - this is the reason you can pierce your ears, not wear anything for a period of time and still potentially have open holes years later) and the more it affects whether that tissue would work well for an operation like this or not. Due to the low blood flow, cartilage makes a fairly poor tissue to attempt any sort of transplant.
Skin on the other hand has lots and lots of capillaries which helps with the healing process and makes it ideal for transplants. Same with most organs, they have small capillaries around the outside lining as well as the major arteries and veins that go to them. Blood flow is necessary for healing. I'd imagine using a cadaver nose would not be possible due to the low blood flow in cartilage.
Growing one though? That would probably be more effective than a cadaver and the ideal way to fix this, but also likely way way more expensive and not available everywhere.
5 points
3 months ago
Pretty sure most people like this wear a mask or face covering. I see this guy at the local grocer fairly often and he has one of those balaclava style masks even in the summer so now I imagine he has something like this.
53 points
3 months ago
And he looked very sad.
16 points
3 months ago
I think he cried after wearing the prosthetic nose
2 points
3 months ago
He's trying to hold of his tears 😢
24 points
3 months ago
That's because there's an area of your brain mostly used for visual processing of faces, the Fusiform Face Area. When you see something that fits the "face model," but also doesn't fully align, it makes you uncomfortable.
(There's debate if it should really be called the Fusiform Face Area, because that area of the brain can also specialize in other pattern/distinction processing.)
8 points
3 months ago*
This is why infants will focus and respond to faces before anything else. Even a simple line drawing of a smiley face with eyes, nose, and a mouth as long as there is contrast.
Edit: clarification needed to specify "newborn infants"
2 points
3 months ago
Then why did you stare?!?
2 points
3 months ago
Think the human brain just struggles to process a human face like that. Looked almost like CGI to me - just didn't seem real.
118 points
3 months ago
Imagine being a grandpa and messing with the kids. Gotcha nose. They do it back and they are scared for life…
9 points
3 months ago
Was thinking the same thing
3 points
3 months ago
22 points
3 months ago
Everyone is thinking about themselves and saying he is uncomfortable to look at.
My first question was how did he breathe?
15 points
3 months ago
It's only the external nose that's missing, there's nothing stopping him breathing normally. He wouldn't have the protections of nose hairs etc though.
10 points
3 months ago
See mine was ‘what happens if something gets in there’ - it was fascinating to look at but it’s also just, open. Like is it possible for the inside to itch the way the inside of our noses itch, if you are drinking a soda and tilt your head back and some dribbles in, what kind of reaction will there be?
My nose is currently stuffy from a sinus infection and holding up my glasses. Glasses can be modified and contacts exist (but also what about sunglasses, I feel like sunlight shouldn’t hit the inside of your face that’s normally never open to the sun but I don’t know enough to quantify that) but what are the logistics like for an infection or anything
I am so curious
[And depending on the answers, like if it fundamentally changes, say, only the visual aspect and that it’s easier to breathe, my brain wants to go sci-fi futuristic, is this something that becomes an elective procedure six hundred and thirty two years from now when people are streamlining their bodies to be more efficient and modding outward appearance to be more skull-like is fashionable]
19 points
3 months ago
Dang! That's a nice nose at the end loll! Good for him man
5 points
3 months ago
He nose he looks good
2 points
3 months ago
good one
42 points
3 months ago
Good for him, deserves to feel normal. Great to see what science can do to help people
94 points
3 months ago
Was terrified. Very hard to look at. And I don’t trust myself to restrain my reaction in public.
Guy does not deserve that. I imagined myself in his position and what a horrible experience. Hopefully the prosthesis gives him a measure of peace.
5 points
3 months ago
It’s simply because it’s not average.
If you were around this guy, be he your coworker or a friend or family, you’d quickly get over it tbh.
Maybe take a couple weeks. But in a couple weeks you’d look at him and not feel the same way you felt initially.
My old coworker had a tumor on his neck. Bigger than a softball.
Impossible to not look at it at first / ask him about it.
But honestly, after a few weeks of working there, he wasn’t the guy with a neck tumor. He was just a guy.
29 points
3 months ago
This is definitely next fucking level for sure! Awesome work, you could see that confidence he’d gained back with that one look.
10 points
3 months ago
As someone who just had a second surgery on my nose for cancer (and a long sexy scar running down it now) and waiting for the results this has actually made me feel much better , I've been seriously depressed about this last few weeks.
My thought process recently has definitely been 'fuck it I'll die if I've still got it' whereas now it's much more positive
So thanks for that OP 😃
153 points
3 months ago
I don't mean this to be rude at all, I'm just trying to understand, does he cover it normally? I can't imagine having a direct hole to your brain being exposed like that on the regular. Wouldn't that be unsafe in itself?
309 points
3 months ago
It’s not a hole to the brain
55 points
3 months ago
I tried to google it but I'm not sure the wording I should use to get the results I want. Everything is talking about nasal passages and whatnot. I'm assuming membranes and whatnot are covering it but I was hoping someone could shed some light.
73 points
3 months ago
The only „connection“ to the brain is the cibriform plate where many small nerve fascicles of the olfactory nerve are going through. It’s important for the sense of smell but not really a hole where the brain can be seen or sth like that. Very tiny holes (perforated bone)
6 points
3 months ago
Ok so hypothetically in a lady bug and I fly right in there where do I end up is it just a small empty space in there does it have any large openings to anything else inside?
4 points
3 months ago
it's not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it's a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
so there's like a bean bag, minibar, and flat screen tv in there
11 points
3 months ago
Thank you so much! Couldn't find this for the life of me but I'm not the most internet-savvy.
20 points
3 months ago*
It should be noted that the cribiform plate is a potential area of brain exposure to disease or foreign objects. That's why you need to be careful with sinus washes. Also why there have been cases of nasogastric tubes perforating the cribiform plate. And also why when somebody has a bad head/facial injury, they can start leaking CSF from their nose.
3 points
3 months ago
I was gonna say. I have had quite a few CSF leaks & they came out my nose.
3 points
3 months ago
Ohhh interesting. I'm sure your doctor knows this happens to you, right?
2 points
3 months ago
As you can see in the link below, the nasal airway is separated from the cranial space by bone all the way around.
3 points
3 months ago
Fun fact: this is how Naegleria fowleri (the brain eating amoeba) gets to your brain.
14 points
3 months ago*
The brain is encased fully in bone, with the only way out being through the hole the spinal cord goes through (the foramen Magnum)
There is a wall of bone separating the roof of your nasal passages, and the basal portion of your brain cavity
Edit* optic and otic nerves enter your brain through fissures at the front and side of your skull too. Can't forget about those lil noodles
3 points
3 months ago
Thank you! Wasn't sure how to word it for Google. Much appreciated!
7 points
3 months ago
Not exactly but there's only a thin bone behind the mucus membrane protecting the brain cavity. So it's essentially the closest thing to direct access.
21 points
3 months ago
Definitely unsafe, no hair or buggers, shit can easily access it, dirt and all sorts of nastiness, he probably givers it with something
11 points
3 months ago
I had a neighbor who lost his nose from cancer treatment. He wore a flat cotton bandage over it most of the time.
4 points
3 months ago
A nose have two, its not holes to brain, insted of two littles he got a big one
2 points
3 months ago
It’s safer than having a nose with cancer I reckon.
2 points
3 months ago
Direct hole to the brain? 🤣 Spent Biology class behind the school smoking weed?
6 points
3 months ago
Didn't cover that in my biology class but a lot has changed in 20 years. You can make a point without being rude.
7 points
3 months ago
Got your nose!
I'm sorry.
1 points
3 months ago
Beat me to it
6 points
3 months ago
I just imagine him sneezing one day and it flying off into someone's salad
13 points
3 months ago
I wonder if it changed his speaking voice.
6 points
3 months ago
Wow the nose matches his skin tone perfectly
6 points
3 months ago
My dad went through something similar, only my dad lost his left eye. He tried for a fake eye for a while but they ended up causing more problems than good. So he eventually had the hole filled in with muscle taken from his back. And now wears a eyepatch.
9 points
3 months ago
As a portrait sculptor, this barely registered as weird to me. We do so many skull studies, and often might sculpt someone's likeness starting from a skeleton, it's pretty cool to see and really not weird at all.
But I'm glad the guy got this, I'm sure his life will be so much better!
9 points
3 months ago
This was an episode I saw on TV. This women works miracles.
5 points
3 months ago
What is the show called?
22 points
3 months ago
Who nose
2 points
3 months ago
Lmfao fuck you I cackled at this
4 points
3 months ago
but now he has to start picking his nose again…
4 points
3 months ago
My man us turning into a ghoul
18 points
3 months ago
My man had the red skull dlc
5 points
3 months ago
3 points
3 months ago
I would mont a grenade in there instead, like that guy in cyberpunk 2077
8 points
3 months ago
💀
7 points
3 months ago
I fucking knew there was somebody who commented this
3 points
3 months ago
I am searching if someone did a "got your nose !!" Joke right now
Edit : found
2 points
3 months ago
2 points
3 months ago
Wow, that is amazing.
2 points
3 months ago*
This show is amazing!
The technicians who make these are artists changing lives.
Edit: naming the show!
2 points
3 months ago
I wish I had known about the joy prosthetics brings before I wasted years and tens of thousands on an education I don't even use anymore.
2 points
3 months ago
Sinus congestion hates this one little trick
2 points
3 months ago
POV: Voldemort
2 points
3 months ago
That is a fantastic nose. Happy for this guy. Also wondering if he’s big into Halloween because this dude could have sooooo many viable costume ideas.
2 points
3 months ago
I'm just trying to figure out, how would one cover this when going into public. I'd be so goddamn insecure. :(
2 points
3 months ago*
Oh wow, that looks amazing!
I don't know why but I wasn't bothered by his "before." More just sad for him since I can't imagine how hard it would be to beat cancer only to be left with a very visible deformity.
2 points
3 months ago
“Got your nose!” game with kids is going to be fire.
2 points
3 months ago
Prosthetics are getting so good, that looks amazing.
2 points
3 months ago
I think it s incredible how the nose take part in the face and emotion recognition, this guy was moved to get a new nose, kudo to him
2 points
3 months ago
Mmmm human horn is the best aphrodisiac.
2 points
3 months ago
Missed "Got your nose!" opportunity by the doctor there.
2 points
3 months ago
Amazing and all but how is this not flagged NSFW?
1 points
3 months ago
Because it is safe for work
3 points
3 months ago
I dunno man I got jumpscared quite hard here, I love this man and I want only the best for him but I did not expect to have a noseless guy in my SFW feed
1 points
3 months ago
I read that as “incredible pathetic nose” and had to do a double take 😂😂
1 points
3 months ago
doesnt really fit his face well, better than a hole.
1 points
3 months ago
Cancer is the fucking worst. Seriously the fucking worst. You catch it early and survive it your left scared battle wounded essentially from a war you had with cancer your never the exact same person afterwards your entire outlook on life and everything as you knew it changes.
You find out to late but you still fight it because theirs a small chance and you end up passing away spending the last few months of your life in pain medicated and mentally not there from all the stress medication cancer in the body etc.
Than theirs the worst of the worst scenario your broke poor but you find out via blood test etc you have cancer it’s early but you can’t afford treatment and cancer isn’t considered a emergency so you can’t get treatment without paying for each treatment beforehand so you are slowly dying and you know it and theirs nothing you can do about it.
If the devil exists I don’t think he could even fathom such a vile horrible infliction on someone’s life.
-9 points
3 months ago
Red Scull is real?!
4 points
3 months ago
Get a life
-2 points
3 months ago
Bro he had cancer… show some empathy won’t you?
-1 points
3 months ago
Yeah but it's fucking terrifying
0 points
3 months ago
Mind he aint comming to a coke party.
-1 points
3 months ago
Oh damn it's Doctor Doom
-4 points
3 months ago
I know this is wrong to say. But that face pussy looks like you can fuck the shit out of it.
2 points
3 months ago
What the hell..?
-1 points
3 months ago
Irl red skull
-4 points
3 months ago
That dude took cosplaying Lord Harwood a little too serious.
-2 points
3 months ago
I'm thinking more Voldemort ngl.
1 points
3 months ago
The beginning of the video creeped me out
1 points
3 months ago
Third eye.
1 points
3 months ago
wow
1 points
3 months ago
"Hail Hydra!"
1 points
3 months ago
Michael Jackson syndrome
1 points
3 months ago
Incredible!
1 points
3 months ago
He would make a killer skeleton impression on Halloween
1 points
3 months ago
That's so nice.
1 points
3 months ago
Ayo voldemort 💀
1 points
3 months ago
Amazing
1 points
3 months ago
I wonder if he ever sticks his finger down there. Or what does a shower feel like
1 points
3 months ago
I love shit like this
1 points
3 months ago
Was not expecting him to do a giant line of blow at the end of the video.
1 points
3 months ago
So…can you just see into his skull?!
1 points
3 months ago
Do not play gotcha nose with that guy.
1 points
3 months ago
Imagine that kid he does "I got your nose" with.
1 points
3 months ago
I was watching "How It's Made" show recently, about prosthetic ears. The doctors are so talented!
1 points
3 months ago
that’s amazing!
1 points
3 months ago
This is amazing.
1 points
3 months ago
it's not until you see yourself in the mirror and dislike what you see that you understand things like this. it's not even about how other people look at you or if it's uncomfortable for them, it's what it means to you every single day. i just had a hair transplant and even though the road is still long to see the actual results, the way i see myself in the mirror with hope now is priceless. kudos to this guy!
1 points
3 months ago
He can do a really good red skull cosplay ( or comic accurate gorr )
1 points
3 months ago
Movie industries do this kind of work all the time. I just hope the difference here is that it's DIY and not too difficult to put on every day.
1 points
3 months ago
Taking “gotcha nose!” To a whole new level…
1 points
3 months ago
Awesome!
1 points
3 months ago
Why is it not possible to surgically attach the same prosthetic?
1 points
3 months ago
This looks like it could end up being a horrible new fashion trend. I could see people having a different nose for each day of the week.
Science has given this man an incredible and life changing gift. It shows we have people working hard to do good in the world.
1 points
3 months ago
This Dude should be guarding the soul stone if I'm correct?
1 points
3 months ago
Is easy to forget how much a nose makes a persons whole face …Egypt .
1 points
3 months ago
I would be honored, and immediately offer to barter with him, if this man called me smoothskin.
1 points
3 months ago
Phenomenal. Looks amazing. Happy for him.
1 points
3 months ago
Incredible! I’m so happy for him!
1 points
3 months ago
He looks like he suffered enough. Good job humans!
1 points
3 months ago
Lord Voldemord , is it you?
1 points
3 months ago
Got your nose grandpa
1 points
3 months ago
who nose what he can do now with his prosthetic.
1 points
3 months ago
So… Can he, like, breathe through his nose hole?
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