CrocodileTear's video: Surgical reconstruction of chin and mouth

Because of the presence of a cancerous tumor, surgeons were forced to cut of this man's anterior mandibula (chin) and reconstruct is with a metal implant as well as grafts taken from the patients forearm and thigh. Below is a timeline to help you understand what you are seeing in the video: -0:00 Introduction -1:20 View of the metal implant attached to the posterior remains of the mandibula. The big pulsating thing on the lower right is the carotid artery. -1:50 Assistant surgeons remove a piece of arm bone to that will be used as a makeshift chin. -2:00 Surgeons saw mutiple notches into the arm bone in order to make it pliable. They then try to adapt it to the metal implant, andsaw some more to correct imperfections. -3:20 The surgeon carefully prepare the area, then start to sew an artery from the graft onto a local artery. -4:10 An 'aterial spurt' is briefly visible. -6:20 View of the patients thigh where muscle was removed to be grafted into the chin area. -7:20 The grafted artery is uncliped. Success! It does not explode but pulsates with every heart beat as it should, without leaking. -8:00 Surgeons prepare a makeshift lip with skin removed from the thigh. -8:30 An arterial squirt formed a heart shaped stain enar the surgeons heart. -9:00 Medical students conclusion.