article_snippet: A schoolgirl spent six months with four inflated balloons lodged under A schoolgirl scalp to grow new skin to allow doctors to cover A schoolgirl birthmark.
article_snippet: In what is thought to be a UK first, surgeons put four balloons under her scalp in a 'mohawk'.
article_snippet: Doctors then spent six months gently inflating four balloons with more than a pint and a half of saline solution, to stretch Jessica's skin.
article_snippet: Doctors spent six months inflating the balloons, three at first, to create extra skin.
article_snippet: In June 2013, three balloons were inserted underneath Jessica's scalp by plastic surgeon Khawaja Gulraiz Rauf at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
article_snippet: Gradually over the course of six months Jessica's scalp by plastic surgeon Khawaja Gulraiz Rauf at Leicester Royal Infirmary injected saline into three balloons, every two weeks.
article_snippet: As three balloons gently expanded they stretched Jessica's scalp by plastic surgeon Khawaja Gulraiz Rauf at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
article_snippet: But the excess skin wasn't quite large enough and so doctors inserted a final balloon in October last year.
article_snippet: Jessica had the first three silicone balloons inserted in a line down the centre of Jessica scalp in June 2013.
article_snippet: Plastic surgery specialist Khawaja Gulraiz Rauf at Leicester Royal Infirmary filled the first three silicone balloons inserted in a line down the centre of her scalp in June 2013 with saline every two weeks using a syringe.
article_snippet: A first operation to use the excess skin created by three balloons, didn't quite cover a mole, and so doctors inserted a fourth balloon in October last year .
highlights_snippet: Specialists inserted four balloons under Jessica scalp to stretch the skin .
  