Project Facade: About

• Computerised Tomography (CT)
• Dr Ian Thompson
• Henry Tonks
• Pedicle Tube

A technique of using ultrasound, gamma rays or X-rays to produce a focused image of the structures across a certain depth within the body, while blurring details at other depths.

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Dr. Ian Thompson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London and is Principal Investigator with Paddy Hartley on the ‘Face Corsets and Bioactive Glass Facial Implants Project’ funded by a Wellcome Trust People Award. He is also the Projects Manager for the Tissue Engineering Group in the Department of Materials, Imperial College, London.  Ian has been responsible for the development of bioactive glass materials for tissue engineering and the repair of skeletal deformity for over seven years and has recently been working on a multi million Dollar project to produce a ‘living’ detector to determine the presence of toxic agents in public places.  Ian’s latest clinical activities have been to produce orbital floor replacements for patients who have experienced some form of trauma or disease.

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Henry Tonks was based at Aldershot and later at Queens Hospital Sidcup between 1916 and 1917, where he produced surgical diagrams for Gillies and his team. He is however most famous for his series of 75 pastel sketches of the ripped and torn faces of servicemen treated at the Queen’s facility. Far from being mere visual records of the injuries surgeons were faced with repairing, Tonks was able to capture the character and despair of the injured men. Christening the series ‘the poor ruined faces of England’, Tonks refused to allow the Imperial War Museum to show the work stating that they should not be put on public display. more...

The tube pedicle was developed simultaneously yet independently by Sir Harold Gillies at the Queen’s Hospital Sidcup and ophthalmic surgeon Vladimir Petrovich Filatov in Odessa, Russia between 1916 and 1917. A tube pedicle is a flap of skin sewn down its long edges, with one end left attached to the site of origin, the other is attached to the site to be grafted.

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