A Czech
woman who had her hair and scalp ripped off by a powerful electric drill
has almost fully recovered after undergoing surgery that replaced the
skin using grafts from her arms and legs. Mother-of-four
Petra Novotna, 27, had been using the electric drill with her hair tied
up in a ponytail when a few strands became wrapped up in the spinning
device. Within
a fraction of a second it sucked the rest of the hair around the drill
bit, and then jerked her head forward - tearing off the skin of her head
in straight line from her eyes and the top of her nose around to the
back of her head.
The young woman from the village of
Tremosna in the Czech Republic had been rushed to the nearby hospital in
a critical condition after her cries raised the alarm. She
was in a serious condition when she was delivered to surgeons at the
clinic of plastic surgery at the University Hospital of Vinohrady in the
Czech Republic capital Prague. The
horrific accident had left almost half her skull exposed, but as the
mangled remains of her scalp were impossible to reattach, doctors had to
operate immediately using tissue from the other parts of her body.
The head of
the clinic and Petra's doctor Andrej Sukop said: 'We took an 8 to
10centimetres long vascular graft from the patient's arms and legs and
we put them on her face.' Petra
says she is happy that the after-effects will not be so dramatic. Now, a
few weeks after the horrible accident, she can already smile again and
is looking forward to going back home.
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