Man gets head reshaped after horrific accident

Tim Barter, a 32-year-old British man recently underwent a plastic surgery in order to get his head reshaped.  In June 2009, Barter, who works as a visual effects director on the Doctor Who series, suffered a horrific accident, after falling 25 feet off a drainpipe.  The doctors used fat from his stomach to reconstruct the natural shape of his head. 

The last two years and a half have been extremely different for Tim Barter. After falling 25 feet (approximately 7.5 meters) off a drainpipe he was trying to use to get into his home, he suffered an accident that changed him physically more than he could have ever imagined.  The day of the accident, he realized he locked himself out of his own home and he figured he could get inside through a window he had left open in the upper floor.  He didn’t make it. The neighbors found him unconscious and heavily wounded and called an ambulance.  He was in a coma for 10 days and when he woke up, he realized the consequences. Tim had had a brain hemorrhage, a broken leg and a shatter cheekbone and eye socket. 

In order to release the brain hemorrhage, Tim had to be operated. Part of his skull was removed. He had titanium plates inserted in his head in order to shape his eye socket and his cheek and to hold the bones.  For months, the 32-year-old-until-then-active man was held indoors by his recovery process.

The most recent procedure Tim Barter underwent is the one of head reconstruction.  The procedure was developed at King's College Hospital in London, where the surgeons used the patient’s belly fat to for reshaping.  Dr. Bentley and Tim gave more details on the surgery on BBC’s Breakfast, on March 1.