Wax Models

Tom Kelsey, a dental technician from New Zealand, also made a now iconic wax model whilst at Sidcup.

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.