In the third episode of Making Faces tonight (Thursday 4 October 2012), the expert and dedicated team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) Maxillofacial Prosthetic department helps three patients gain confidence about the way they look.

This week’s programme (Channel 5, 21:00)  features Peter, who lost his nose to cancer and hopes a prosthetic one will allow him to return to his old way of life.

Elsewhere, we see the skill of the department as they make a template for a new jaw for Johnny, which will be made using bone taken from his arm.

Also this week, Rebecca has lived with eye problems all her life and hides behind her hair because she doesn’t like the way she looks, but she hopes an operation to insert a plate in her eye socket will help rebuild her confidence.

Making Faces is a new Channel 5 documentary series which looks at the work of the Maxillofacial Prosthetic department at QEHB.

The hour-long episodes were shot over five months and follow the elite team of highly-skilled surgeons and prosthetics experts as they rebuild faces destroyed by disease, injury or birth defect.

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s (UHB) cutting edge unit is the busiest and best in the country and its surgeons are seen performing some amazing work not undertaken elsewhere in Britain.

It is the only such unit working with military patients and the only one to receive emergency trauma cases from all over Britain.