Home Collections Wax Models Wax Models Tom Kelsey, a dental technician from New Zealand, also made a now iconic wax model whilst at Sidcup. Wax model demonstrating skin flaps, including tube pedicles. Courtesy: The Royal College of Surgeons Another view of the wax effigy. Courtesy: The Royal College of Surgeons He made this sculpted wax effigy as a teaching aid to demonstrate a range of skin flaps available for reconstruction of the face. This sculpture now belongs to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is on display in their Hunterian museum alongside some BAPRAS Collection artefacts. A copy is in the National Army Musuem in London. Kelsey, no relation to Kelsey-Fry the dentist at Sidcup, also made some wax faces now in the collection of the Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand. He would later make two head and neck dissection models in the image of Lenin and Stalin. Share Back to the Museum Collection Highlights 2025 Paul McArthur Learn more. Learn More 1962 Dow Corning Silicone Breast Implant BAPRAS/140 1972 Dow Corning 120cc Anatomical Breast Implant BAPRAS/140 What Is... Learn More 1934 The North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary The North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, on the Mount Estate, Stoke-on-Trent, became the site of... Learn More 1910 John Grocott MRCS, LRCP, MBBS, FRCS John Grocott is the unknown “Fifth Man” of British Plastic surgery, and... Learn More 1850 Research Room Artefact database Visit the link below to search the collection database (Axiell) for all artefacts, images and... Learn More 1917 Why "The Queen's"? The Queen’s Hospital was named after Queen Mary, consort of King George... Learn More 1918 Sidcup's Australian Section An Australian section was formed at Sidcup, shortly following that from New... Learn More 1920 Gillies in America Shortly after the First World War, in November 1920, Harold Gillies made his first of several... Learn More