In her sixty-something years, a wealthy lady decided to have a facelift and rejuvenation by grafting stem cells. For the procedure in a thug clinic, where various celestials of Hollywood and persons who have attached themselves to them are being treated for this, Madame paid 20 thousand US dollars.
At first, everything was "wow" and promising, but three months later, a Californian patient noticed that her face not only continued to ache, but her right eye began to click and crack when blinking, closing and opening.
Realizing that the unusual symptoms did not go away by themselves, a California citizen turned to another cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Allan Wu, to whom she explained that she could not open her right eye without unpleasant painful sensations and strange clicking sounds. Dr. Wu of the Morrow Institute at first decided that the patient was fantasizing - you never know what, they say, would come to mind of a young elderly lady.
However, after a painstaking operation that lasted 6 hours, Allan removed from the woman's eyelid and surrounding tissues fragments of bone tissue, which by nature should not be there. It turned out that it was these "eye bones" that generated the strange clicking sounds when the eye was opened and closed.
Dr. Wu and his colleagues speculate that the reason for the strange phenomenon is that stem cells (from which any tissue in the body can develop) have interacted with calcium, which is contained in the skin of the face and not only it.
The procedure of "rejuvenation", which the unfortunate lady underwent, in America is not regulated by any regulations. It consists in the fact that stem cells are taken from the patient's blood or bone marrow and injected with a syringe into any other part of the body.
Stem cells are the building blocks of the growing tissue of the body. Therefore, with their help, it is theoretically and practically possible to repair any organ, even the brain and heart. It is also believed that stem cell therapy is able to rejuvenate the skin, forcing new, very young, tender, youthful youthful cells to replace old cells.
When madam came to the would-be surgeons from Beverly Hills, she also ordered abdominal liposuction, during which the doctors isolated stem cells for a facelift. While dealing with the latter, the doctors also injected the patient with a traditional cosmetic anti-wrinkle serum, ignoring the fact that the serum contains calcium hydroxylapatite. Scientific American writes that the mineral causes stem cells to grow into adult bone.
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Fortunately, in the course of corrective surgery, doctors from the Morrow Institute managed to remove all unnecessary "grotesque" bones from the eyes of an elderly Californian woman. However, there is no guarantee that they will not grow in the same place again, ever in the future.