• Question: why do you have mask when you do operatoin

    Asked by Lak2016 to Pip on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Pip Millington

      Pip Millington answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      That’s because we all have a lot of airborne bugs like some bacteria and viruses naturally lining our nose and mouth. If these get into the middle of someone’s body they might actually do more damage than if they were in the mouth. Also, it stops things like nose hairs from falling down!

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