The Operating Theatre Journal

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Headspace Helps to put a Happy Face on the Children who Look Different

Art meets science in Liverpool as a top craniofacial surgeon enlists the help of the public to find a 'normal' head shape.
Christian Duncan is a man with a thousand faces. And he needs every one of them to assist him in his delicate, invariably life-changing work.
As a surgeon with the responsibility of redrawing the disfigured faces and reshaping the misshapen heads of children, he needs all the guidance he can muster. So in 2011 he came up with the idea of enlisting the public to help him in his work in the craniofacial unit at Alder Hey in Liverpool, one of Europe's biggest children's hospitals.

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