Chapter 759: Chapter 677: Ivan_2 Chapter 759: Chapter 677: Ivan_2 —
In Auckland, New Zealand, inside a villa.
A assistant in a white gown carefully removes a piece of skin from the cultivator. The skin, which has expanded from 1 square centiter to approximately 200 square centiters, is placed on a tray by the assistant and brought to Professor Ivan.
Professor Ivan, in his fifties, has deep and insightful eyes. His cheeks, chin, and the area around his mouth are all covered in thick stubble, evidencing several days without shaving. If this continues, he will surely grow a typical Russian beard.
Professor Ivan moved from Russia to New Zealand many years ago and has resided on this island nation ever since, apart from traveling for surgeries.
With Professor Ivan’s wealth and professional capabilities, he could have moved to almost any immigrant-accepting country in the world. However, after many years of field research and comparison, he chose New Zealand.
The United States was too boisterous; he liked tranquility. Canada was too cold; even Vancouver’s mild climate left him unable to withstand the depressive rainy seasons.
He had already grown weary of Europe, where the constant power struggles and debates made it hard to find peace. Australia was dry and lacked water; Singapore was quite good, but it was too small.
Only this remote island nation—New Zealand—deeply attracted Professor Ivan. After several trips there, he decided to settle in this solitary land.
He bought a piece of land in the suburbs of Auckland and built a villa there. In addition to the residential building, there was also his laboratory, and even his doomsday bunker.
This so-called doomsday bunker was purely to satisfy his ultimate pursuit of safety; it now served as a wine cellar.
The tray was placed securely on Professor Ivan’s desk. He nodded slightly and his gloved fingers gently touched the skin. He observed it carefully in the natural light coming from the window: “It still lacks a lot. It is fully qualified for replacing scars on other parts of the body, but for facial plastic surgery, it still hasn’t t the requirents.”
“Professor Manstein did not make any progress on this topic for years and later focused on spinal cord injury research, disregarding this one. When Langnaife Company took over this topic, even though it enhanced it to its fullest extent, they eventually hit a ceiling. While they’ve made huge breakthroughs in expanding the size, they have managed to consistently maintain the complete structure of the dermis and epidermis, but the texture is never satisfactory, especially compared to facial skin. While it’s completely unproblematic to transplant into common areas, there is so difference if transplanted onto the face. However, it has improved a lot compared to before; it is currently the best choice in the world. As doctors, if we can’t choose perfection, we can only choose the best because in most cases, the option for perfection is lacking.”
“How is the preparation for the surgery going?”
Professor Ivan took off his gloves, letting the assistant put the skin back into the cultivator. There were many such cultivators displayed in the laboratory.
As the assistant carefully put the skin back into the cultivator, he said, “The surgery in Singapore is ready, and our equipnt has arrived in Singapore. Professor Manstein will be involved in this surgery, but he is only the theoretical team leader. You are the actual chief surgeon.”
There was a human body diagram hanging on the wall. Professor Ivan stood up, stood in front of the picture, and used a pencil in his hand to indicate the diagram: “This surgery is a massive project. Severe burns have caused large areas of scars all over the body. These hyperplastic scars need to be excised, and then transplanted and covered with the skin we cultivated. As you can see, the nose and ear lobes need to be reconstructed. The 3D printed cartilage from the University of Alberta can barely fulfill the mission. As for the orthopedics of the pelvis and joints, we will have to ask that Chinese doctor for help. I’ve seen his papers and cases. He is proficient in orthopedic correction surgery. If one were to judge based on his papers, he should be the world’s number one in this field at the mont, unsurpassed by anyone.”
“I have never heard of this Doctor Yang before?” the assistant asked curiously.
Professor Ivan shook his head, “That’s because you never venture beyond the field of plastic surgery. If you have spare ti, I suggest you read broadly, from basic dicine to clinical dicine, all fields, all specialties. They often go hand in hand and can learn from each other. You must learn every day, only learning can keep you invigorated.”
“Yes, Professor Ivan, I will rember.”
In the assistant’s heart, Professor Ivan is a ntor, a true ntor.
“This Chinese doctor, I’ve never t him, but I have read all his papers. He couldn’t write the essence in his papers if he didn’t have a large number of successful cases. Chinese people are naturally intelligent and with a large amount of cases, they can easily cultivate doctors with superb dical skills. Unfortunately, Chinese doctors always lack a bit of imaginative spark, but this young doctor is different, he has a precious spark of imagination.” Professor Ivan’s tone was calm and slow.
“Professor Ivan, you’re always able to see things that others cannot!” The assistant admired sincerely.
“The spark of imagination, in fact, lies in the issue between 1% of inspiration and 99% of perspiration. 1% of inspiration is the most important, even more important than that 99% of perspiration. If one day, the Chinese get a 1% of inspiration, their technology will surge dramatically. When I was twenty, during the ti of the Soviet Union, I studied at the First dical University of Shchyonov. At that ti, I saw Chinese students, they were very intelligent and diligent, my impression of Chinese people is profound, intelligent, diligent, and patient.”
Professor Ivan seed to be lost in thought, as if he was brought back to his younger years, for a mont, then he resud his usual poise.
“You see, this pelvic deformity and bilateral hip joint deformity resulting from the comminuted pelvic fracture caused by a car accident, if you want to perform surgery to correct it, you need to do complex pelvic osteotomy. This makes orthopedic surgeons daunted, but this Chinese doctor can accomplish it. He successfully operated on patients with spinal fold, this requires wisdom, courage, and superb surgical skills.”
“I studied this case for three years, the only thing I was not sure about was the texture of the facial skin and the orthopedic correction. The skin cultivated in our lab still has a difference in texture with facial skin, and this softer skin is very less tolerant to ultraviolet rays, according to our experintal data, under the exposure to ultraviolet rays, it tends to produce pignt deposits and risks of skin cancer are considerably increased.”
“However, for this Miss Italy, this is already the best choice, she can later walk on the street with a normal person’s face.”
The assistant looked at his ntor with admiring eyes. This genius master of plastic surgery was about to recreate a beauty. Yet he was not satisfied, his pursuit of details was almost obsessive.
He applied stem cell cultivation technology and mature bio 3D printing technology to plastic surgery, making the shaping of so bones and cartilage contours incredibly easy. The use of ex vivo skin expansion technology made skin shaping a breeze.
“I always ask you to have a broad understanding of dicine, such as cartilage 3D printing technology. It hasn’t progressed much in joint surgery, yet we apply it to the formation of the nose and ear cartilage, the effect is very good. Because we use it for form, not function, while joint surgery needs function.”
Professor Ivan wrote sothing on the drawing with a pencil, then took a few steps back to observe the drawing carefully. He had been continuously perfecting his surgical plan over the years.
He was going to use his dical skills to create a man-made beauty and bring her back to the stage.
“I heard the Chinese doctor declined the invitation for this surgery?”
Professor Ivan always maintained an even pace when speaking, neither fast nor slow, like a composed preacher.
The assistant respectfully responded, “Yes, Langnaife sent him an invitation, but he declined.”
“Perhaps, he looks down on Langnaife, or doesn’t know about Langnaife. But he must at least be interested in this case, such a genius must be an individual with a strong interest in dicine. At the sa ti, he might be a bit interested in our skin expansion technology. This is the world’s currently mature organ cloning technology that is genuinely applied to the clinic. You have to believe, geniuses have one thing in common – an extre passion for a certain field, while not caring about unrelated things.”
“It seems, I should take a trip to China personally.” Professor Ivan looked out the window.
The scenery outside the window was picturesque, with a blue sky and white clouds.
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