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Article: A matter of taste and smell. (how they work, and the effects of losing them)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- March 11, 1994
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What if you couldn't taste your favorate foods or smell poisonous fumes? One teen tells how smell and taste losses changed his life.
Riding his mountain bike, watching TV, or hitting the books, Matthew Clarke, 19, seems like your average teen--with one exception: He has poor taste, and we don't mean the plaid-shirt-with-a-polka-dot-corduroys kind.
It began with a severe auto accident just over a year ago, when the car Matthew was riding in skidded into a telephone pole. Flung from the back seat, Matthew smashed into the windshield head-on. After 12 hours of surgery to repair several fractured facial bones--followed by weeks of recovery--Matthew began ...