Buzzin Bizarre

When you hear the word prosthetics, you assume a false leg or arm, but Leonard McQueeny holds the Guinness book of records for the most extensive facial prosthesis.  It is truly humbling to watch this clip and to see how it has transformed this remarkable man’s life.

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On the 11th March 2008, I reported on a story of the ‘Tree Root Man‘ who lived in Java. His name is Dede Koswara and he has lived for 20 years with huge tree-like growths covering his limbs.
Now Dede is hoping to get married after doctors have performed not one, but four major operations to [...]

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Jose Mestre, 51 years old, started with a smallish tumour on his lip in adolescence, he now has a bloody tumour that obliterates his face.
Jose is a Jehovah’s Witness and for years has refused any sort of surgery on this terrible facial mutation but he has now been given hope by a British doctor and [...]

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This is the story of Dede, a 35 year old Indonesian fisherman who has become known worldwide as the ‘tree root man’ and Dr Anthony Gaspari, a dermatology expert at the University of Maryland in the US, who tracked him down in the jungle and begins to develop a cure.
The ‘roots’ in question began to [...]

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