Three weeks later the doctors grafted nine sheets of the boy’s own cultured skin onto his lower abdomen, replacing some of the cadaver skin. More operations followed, including a few conventional grafts, using skin taken from the boy’s scalp. After six months his wounds were 85 percent healed and more than half of his body was covered with his own, laboratory grown skin. Not long afterward his suit of grafted skin was completed.

Another example of the precision of lasers is in the removal of otherwise inoperable tumors of the brain and spinal cord, where surrounding tissue must be left undisturbed. With conventional surgery it is usually impossible to remove all the malignant cells, which often spread to other parts of the body. Although such operations are still in the experimental stage, it is hoped that before long even the most inaccessible tumor will be within reach of a laser’s cutting beam.

Getting Help for Sexual Problems

Most sexual problems can be helped. Yet many people with problems don’t go for help.

Is it because they don’t know that they can be helped? Or where to go to be helped? Or is it because their feelings get in the way? They may be worried about what the therapists will do. Or they may not like to admit they have a problem.

Or is it because they think they shouldn’t have to learn? They think lovemaking not OK to talk about their sex life?