Hay all, I have not blogged in a while. Hope you are all
well. The weather in the UK has been awesome the past few months. The heat is
really helping to keep my pain levels down. This is just a quick post to let
you know about some work I am doing with Saving Faces (The Facial Surgery
Research Foundation).
About Saving Faces
Saving Faces is a registered research charity based at St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital in West Smithfield, London. The charity is the
brainchild of consultant maxillofacial surgeon, Iain Hutchison, who launched
Saving Faces in 2000. Over the years Iain and his colleagues came to realise
that very little research was being conducted into the treatment of facial
diseases such as oral cancer and that many of the facial injuries they saw
everyday could be prevented through education.
There are now more than 40 facial surgeons throughout the
United Kingdom collaborating with a team of nine talented Saving Faces
researchers. Together they are carrying out ground breaking work in areas such
as the role of selective neck dissection in early oral cancer treatment, the
psychological factors in head and neck and gastrointestinal cancer, the
prevention of smoking and binge drinking amongst teenagers and the use of
microcytoscopy to provide a non-invasive, in-vivo rapid detection tool for oral
cancer.
This collaborative approach enables our researchers to
answer vital questions more rapidly than even the most famous of single
institutions. In addition to the surgeons who volunteer their services, Saving
Faces is also fortunate to have patients who are willing to participate in
clinical trials to give hope to others who will in future undergo treatment.
Former patients are also providing support to newly-diagnosed patients and
their families through a support network. The emotional and psychological
impact of surgery is often just as traumatic as the procedure itself.
Research
A couple of months ago I was asked to help them with some
patient led research and I have been asked to gather information about UK orthognathic
surgery patient’s experiences. The data
gathered from this research will be used to help improve services and care in
the NHS around the UK. It would really help if you could spare 5 minutes of
your time to fill in this brief online questionnaire about your experience.
Please note this is for UK PATIENTS ONLY!
Additional Information about this Questionnaire
This project is run by the National Facial and Oral Research
Centre (NFORC) which is funded by Saving Faces, together with British
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) and British Orthodontic
Society (BOS). The online feedback survey only requires initials and month/year
of birth, which means the result will be anonymous and no individual will be
identified from the result.
The short questionnaire has already been distributed to
clinicians at hospitals all over UK, and has received hundreds of results. However,
we would like the result to be the least biased, which means we need more
entries directly from orthognathic patients, as opposed to those selected by
clinicians.
As always, sending my best wishes and love and thank you for
checking out my blog
I will be sure to update you with my case and progress soon
and to share some more information on the research I am partaking in.
Stay Jaw-geous
xxx
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Looking forward to connecting with you soon!
Lots of love always,
Steffie
x.x.x
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