Feb 07, 2011

Dry ice leaves woman with severe facial deformities

When Lea Cabanillas was a baby, her mother treated a mild burn on her face with dry ice, not knowing that doing so would cause further damage, the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation reports.

The incident left her with a severe facial scar, drooping eyelid and deformed nose.

"Apparently the mother interpreted the advice to apply dry ice-compresses to the cheek area as applying actual dry ice," one physician said, quoted by the news source.

Although her father had promised to pay for plastic surgery, he died shortly before her 25th birthday, leaving the family in financial straits.

In a bid to improve her appearance - which had made her a victim of bullying over the years and had been impacting her emotional health - Cabanillas wrote a letter to a wish-granting TV show about her situation.

The message won her professional help from Beverly Hills 6750, an aesthetic institute that utilized cutting-edge scar treatment technology to repair her face. The work was complete after a year-long series of surgical procedures.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports that in 2008, more than 10.2 million comestic procedures were performed in the U.S. 

 

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