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Scots grandad forced to pay to have huge nose growth removed and slams NHS for lack of help

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A grandad had a huge growth on his nose cut off privately because he was afraid his granddaughter wouldn’t want him in her 18th birthday photos.

Thomas Stevenson, 69, a retired driver who used to work at the petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, began developing rhinophyma five years ago.

The disfiguring condition kept getting worse and he asked the NHS to get it removed but he got so fed up waiting for a ­procedure that he went private.

Thomas said: “My ­granddaughter was approaching her 18th birthday and I just knew she wouldn’t want me in the photographs.”Rhinophyma is a very visible nasal deformity caused by the proliferation of sebaceous glands and underlying connective tissue, which affects mostly older white men.

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