Hippolyte Morestin (1 September 1869 – 12 February 1919) was a French surgeon, and associate professor of anatomy at the

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. He was one of the founders of cosmetic surgery. He was dubbed "The Father of the Mouths" after his breakthroughs in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Morestin was born at

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, a

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in the French

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. His father Charles Amédée Morestin (d. 1902) was a prominent doctor who influenced both Hippolyte and his younger brother Amédée to study medicine. Both Hippolyte and Amédée dedicated their doctoral theses, defended in Paris in 1894 and 1912, respectively, to their father, and the work of Amédée used observations by Hippolyte. Morestin greatly influenced the British-New Zealand surgeon

Harold Gillies Sir Harold Delf Gillies (17 June 1882 – 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery. Early life Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Member of Parliament in Otago, Robert Gillies ...

, who met him on leave in Paris during the First World War. Gillies was attached to the British General Hospital in Rouen. Morestin, when Gillies was observing him, removed a tumor from a patient's face, and essentially "

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" skin by cutting and rolling it from the patient's jaw onto the wound to allow the skin to regrow.Harold Gillies
. The New Zealand Edge Morestin died from a pulmonary illness during the influenza epidemic of 1918–1919.

Works

From 1892 and until his death in 1919 Morestin has published more than 600 scientific works including the following * *
Chirurgie générale des articulations
Paris: Doin (1907) * * * *

References

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