To help people in need, a hospital in the UK has developed incredibly lifelike prosthetics for people who have lost bodily parts, providing comfort to many patients.
And technology to construct prosthetic body parts often for the face which have been lost through trauma or disease. while the prosthetic ears, noses, eyes and fingers can t restore physical functions, the remarkable restoration of a patient s appearance can have an incredible impact. 0ur health correspondent alastair fee has more. in this lab in poole hospital, lives broken by trauma and disease are put back together. it s a mixture of art, technology and science. it s getting used to colours and looking at different textures in the skin, picking those up and knowing what colours to add to your silicone to alter that colour to match the patient. when reconstructive surgery can t help, this small skilled team can. this is where life changing prostheses are made, so life like that no one would notice. the majority of people that we see have had cancer. but we also see people that have been through trauma,
A lot of prosthetic body parts and that only after the scene was shot that somebody pointed out, of course, whoa, that head looked like dub yaw. what a coincidence. they said in the d common dvd commentary they said we meant no disrespect to the president and apologize if anything we did or said suggests otherwise. lies. it is lies. hbo said the whole thing was unacceptable. meanwhile they showed a preview of season three of game of throwns. that s already 10 times better than game of throwns. i won t get into how boring game of thrown is. we will talk about it. let s 2 to you, chris. are you buying that this was not a political statement?
it is a pittsburgh pirate. it is a pittsburgh pirate ladies and gentlemen. there we go. there is the proof. does flashing a severed head mean they want him dead? game of throwns apologized for george w. bush s head on a spike during the show s season finale last year. the whole thing had gone unnoticed until they put it out on their dvd commentary track. i am saying people should back up. the last head on the left is george bush. george bush s head appears in a couple beheading scenes. it is not a choice. it is not a political statement. it is maybe one of the heads we have around. of course, you did. the producers claim they used a lot of prosthetic body parts