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OK I posted this earlier, and it got no response at all. But I'm still up, and still want answers. This was posted on /b/ earlier today, and I'd appreciate it if someone with more scientific knowledge than myself were to give an opinion on whether or not it's true. There must be someone lurking about with some knowledge of medicine and anatomy. Or just some student logician who can spot a flaw of logic in the post?

Anyway, I'll copy it verbatim from original post.

1) Hi /b/. So I was reading this article last night about voluntary amputation of healthy limbs, and considered linking you to it seeing how that sort of stuff seems to interest a lot of you. But then I realised without pictures it was useless, what with half of you having the attention span of an American child who's missed his morning dose of dexamfetamine.

But then in my medical ethics class this morning we were handed out photocopies from a book about fucked up and very morally dubious surgery, and even without any pretty pictures, I knew this would generate some interest on here. So I spent the last half hour copying it out for you, because I'm nice like that. Diving straight in -

“Miller et al report the case [7] of a young man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who was able to persuade a surgeon from Belarus to conduct a similar procedure. The man, from Virginia, USA, had contacted the surgeon over the internet from the basement of his mother's house. The man, aged 27, did not leave the basement, which he had fortified with lead sheeting before beginning his residence, believing that he would be shot in the head should he place himself in any situation of vulnerability [8].”

(captcha = logically entdcs...hoping /sci/ will logically end deecees for me)
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2) <<< here the footnotes say that he thought he'd be executed by the chinese mafia and that he had watched a shit load of gangster films as a teenager. I left footnote numbers in incase anybody thought this was BS or copypasta, then can give refs....

More interesting bits --- “The study shows a marked similarity with the Calworth report in that: the subject's desires were fulfilled by a surgeon from abroad; the subject had used the internet to find and contact the surgeon; the surgeon kept residence in a country outside the legal jurisdiction of the subject's country, and with whom diplomatic relations were weak; and that the surgeon had requested a fee outside of accordance with the general cost of a medically legitimate surgical procedure of a similar nature conducted within the subject's home country.”

OK I can't be bothered to copy all of this bit out. I'll just skip straight to the gory bits (this shit is fucked, even for /b/) --- “blah blah blah ..confirm this [13]. The surgery involved an incision laterally across the forehead to expose the occipitofrontalis, which was severed from its connections to the skull, facilitating the removal of the facial flesh downwards, following incisions made anterior to the ears, following the masseter and ending at the upper obicularis oris, where the incisions ended thereby preventing full removal of the facial tissue.
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3) Following exposure of the frontal skull, the bone was reportedly cleansed with saline solution, prior to slight abrasion of the frontalis and exposed temporal fascia to allow a greater chance of success in the grafting of the ceramic plates. Anchoring points were drilled about the frontalis bone, from high upon the forehead to a longitudinal opposite point along the top of the optical orbits, following which titanium skeletal anchors were inserted into the holes. Anchors were then inserted along the perimeter of exposed sphenoid and temporal bones, after which ceramic plates of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) at 3.5mm thickness were sited about all prepared points before fixture with titanium screws [14]. The skin and musculature of the face was then sutured back into place. Post-recovery the patient was reported to have lost the use of the left orbicularis oris entirely. Additionally the surgery left the subject with reduced use of the frontalis musculature [15].”

/copying. The article goes on to describe the surgery to the back of the head, but it's basically a similar procedure.

So /b/, you jelly of this guy? I bet loads of you faggots would like an armour-plated skull. I've no idea if 3.5mm of ceramic plate is enough to stop a bullet though.
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huh, nobody? from what i can find out on google the anatomy seems legit. but can you really perform such an operation? I have my reasons, but i'm dying to know...
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If only there was some way to protect the skull from damage without invasive surgery. Maybe some kind of...outside-of-the-head protective dome? Hard to explain, but basically I envision some kind of durable material that would be placed on, maybe even strapped to the head that would protect the skull from trauma.

Anyway, I'm rambling, but if anyone did that they'd probably make quite a bit of money. Maybe one day when we are advanced enough it'll be possible
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Heh
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>>5259678

Yeah, that was brought up in the original thread. Point is, te guy was a paranoid schizophrenic, and being so was insane, thus not capable of making sane decisions. Like, 'oh, I should buy a helmet!'

Instead he wanted his face and head reconstructed with body armour.....

I don't know...



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