It is an innovation which could give hope to thousands of patients. Called BIOFACE, this project aims to “improve the quality of life of patients suffering from oral cancer thanks to a surgical process for reconstructing facial bones which is based on an innovative biomaterial”, we can read in the press release of CHU de Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).
A project selected by the National Research Agency
It all started in 2022, when Agnès Dupret-Bories, hospital practitioner at Toulouse University Hospital and specialist in microsurgical reconstruction and his team manage, for the first time, to rebuild the noses of two people suffering from cancer from a synthetic graft. Following this medical feat, the National Research Agency selected the Toulouse university hospital center to develop the BIOFACE projectalways worn by Agnès Dupret-Bories. The team also obtained financing of France 2030.
Launched on December 16, this innovation “has the ambition of radically changing a method of caring for patients operated on for oral cancer,” she said.
Operations requiring the removal of facial bones
In cases of oral cancer, operations often require having to remove bones…
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