MAKING PEOPLE WHOLE AGAIN
‘YOU’LL PROBABLY FEEL LIKE YOU’RE IN A MAD-SCIENTIST LAB’
AT FIRST glance Allison Vest’s office looks like a macabre little shop of horrors. An array of disembodied fingers and a set of forearms rest on one countertop.
Nearby is a random assortment of noses, eyes and ears scattered among various tools, paintbrushes, plaster moulds and anatomical drawings. And on display in a metal surgical tray is a sundry collection of nipples.
“When you come into my office, you’re probably going to feel like you’re in a mad-scientist lab,” Allison says.
But for the 60-80 patients she sees every year at Mosaic Prosthetics, her clinic in McKinney, Texas, what she offers is nothing short of miraculous.
Allison is one of only 44 people in the world who can call anaplastology a career. Over the past 17 years, using her talents as a painter and sculptor along with training in anatomy and other sciences, she’s created hyper-realistic silicone prosthetics for people with missing body parts.
No job is too big or small – from complex limbs to a simple eyebrow, Allison
(42) has helped
