# Survival chance with extreme facial wound

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 7, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survival-chance-with-extreme-facial-wound/748180 "2016-03-07T05:11:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survival-chance-with-extreme-facial-wound/748180/21 "2016-03-08T15:18:51Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> How nearly realistic and “normal” would a facial prosthetic need to be, in order to not be seen as gruesome?
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> I would think that any “almost normal looking” facial prosthetic would put the patient right square into the “uncanny valley”, possibly the worst place to be.

Here’s a before and after photgraph of one of the Tin Noses Shop clients: [http://spotlights.fold3.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ww1-masks\_before-and-after.jpg](http://spotlights.fold3.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ww1-masks_before-and-after.jpg) You might do a double take if you saw him on the bus, but I don’t think it’s “gruesome”. Definitely an improvement over the injury.

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