Just a weird memory that popped up. A woman (played by a thin lipped soap actress) needs one of her lips fixed for reasons. So the docs decide to rebuild using vaginal tissue. The movie generated a smidge of controversy.
I remember A movie, because it was based on a story in Des Moines, where I grew up, and the woman later married a teacher at my high school (although I never had him as a student). She was severely disfigured in a car accident, and this was indeed done to rebuild her facial lips. The labia minora can be used because they’re equally sensitive, and do not lubricate like the vagina itself does.
What was REALLY controversial was that she MARRIED THE SURGEON after her treatments were finished. That marriage didn’t last long, and she married the teacher later on. I think this is it; the picture is of her when the book that inspired the movie was published.
In the late 1980s, I worked with a woman whose son was born with a cleft lip and palate, and Dr. Stallings was his surgeon. After a while, she realized that she’d never received a bill from him, and asked him about it. He told her, “For people like your son, my fee is whatever your insurance pays. I make enough money from nose jobs, breast augmentations, etc. that for people who need surgery, it’s just not right to charge extra for that kind of thing.” Sadly, he died by suicide a few years later.
Here’s Dr. Stallings’ findagrave.com page. I hadn’t know that he had CFS; that disorder has a very high suicide rate.
And hers.
That was also a plotline on an episode of Nip/Tuck (season 2, episode 6 “Bobbi Broderick”).