Artificial jaw successfully regrown.

 A jaw destroyed by cancer has been successfully revived.
The jaw of a 55 year old Val Blunden who had the bottom of her mouth and chin destroyed by cancer more than two years ago has been regrown.

The woman who lost her jaw to cancer was unable to eat, drink and talk, subsequently taking early retirement from her postwoman job.
The team of surgeons from Nottingham and Wolverhampton have reconstructed her jaw by "stretching" her own tissue and bone around a frame.
Through "distraction osteogenesis", the process that has been around for a number of years but never been used in this way before, Dilip Srinivasan, maxillofacial surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, said.
Ms Blunden first found a lump underneath her tongue in January 2015 and following diagnosis has had chins,gland,lower lip and part of her tongue removed.
After two previously failed attempts to reconstruct her jaw using skin grafts, and with her inability to use prosthetic replacement, she hopes the procedure will improve her life.
She said,she has lived like this for two years she'd begun to accept that this is how life was going to be, but now she's so much more hopeful for a different future.
This can be a breakthrough that'll be use in subsequent similar operations.