Instead of rebuilding a damaged nose directly on a patient’s face, they temporarily grew a new one on his forehead before preparing it for transplant. Recommended VideosThe extraordinary procedure was carried out after a worker from Iraq lost about 99% of his nose in a high-voltage electrical accident. Rather than using a conventional reconstruction, doctors chose one of the rarest techniques in modern plastic surgery. Doctors first created the framework of the patient’s future nose using cartilage. They detached the newly formed nose from the forehead and transferred it to its proper anatomical position on the patient’s face.