 Cells and blood vessels grew into the device over two months ( Facebook) She can't feel her nose yet, but a further operation should help with this. Speaking to 20 Minutes, she said: "I can go out, I come back to life. "It's miraculous, this biomaterial was my last resort and I salute the research and the work of the doctors who helped me to hold on. "I stayed shut inside my home for these past eight years. When you are sick, you isolate yourself and the face is what you see first." Before growing a new nose, doctors had tried giving Cecile skin grafts to replace lost tissue, but those died off. She was also given prosthetics, but struggled to keep them in place. It was then that surgeons Dr Agnes Dupret-Bories and Dr Benjamin Valerie asked if she'd be interested in re-growing the nose. They chose to implant the nose d){kind=link}
The French woman, known only as Cecile, says she can smell her garden again and finds breathing easier after the impressive procedure
A woman who lost her nose to cancer eight years ago has managed to grow a new one – on her arm.
Carine, who lives in Toulouse in France, had some of her original nose removed in 2013 after she was diagnosed with sinus cancer.
Although the surgery got rid of the cancer, it left her too self-conscious to leave her home and took away her sense of smell.
Prior to her cancer treatment, doctors had created a custom-made nose using 3D-printed biomaterial and kept it on ice until technology caught up, The Daily Mail reports.