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Tin masks to fixed faces: plastic surgery's debt to World War I

Credit an immigrant Armenian dentist at Base Hospital No. 22,Dannes-Camiers, France, for your new good looks.

Let's not forget that the foundations of this specialty were built behind battlefield lines, and the goals of these medical practitioners were to replace the tin masks of survivors with something better.

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