4- Dede's face

In a press conference Dede showed his new skill of holding a pen, an exploit that had become impossible by the foot along the "roots" that previously were registering his hands. His face, which had been dominated by the big warts, seems to be clear, apart from some blemishes.
He wants to celebrate the Ramadan, the festival of Islamic fasting, with his family, before returning to the hospital for a major surgery to cut his remaining warts away.

“His illners cannot be 100 per cent treated, but his quality of life has improved. Before he was depending on others to do his activities, now he i sable to eat bye his own, his hand to write, to use the cellular telephone “, said Rachmad Dinata, one of the doctors who has treated Dede in the hospital Hasan Sadikin of the province. After the advertising generated by the article and a documentary of television, the government of Indonesia intervened to accelerate his treatment.
Dede faced was his first operation in January. When Telegraph.co.uk spoke with him in the hospital in March, there he is described the pleasure of being capable of walking without pain for the first time in 20 years.
The doctors have warned him that the warts can grow again, but his condition is not mortal.
The images taken in a hospital of Indonesia, show him using a mobile telephone and of eating and drinking without help. About 4 pounds of horns of warts have been removed of his members, which allows him to use his hands and to walk without pain along the first time in 20 years.

Dede seizing his telephone

3- Dr. Anthony Gaspari with Dede

Dr. Anthony Gaspari with Dede

Dr. Anthony Gaspari (dermatologist) of the University of Marylan arrived in his village and proposed him a surgery beside a treatment that will allow him in short time recover his normal life. As studies of other cases, the possibility to suffer this illness is at "least 1 between 1.000.000". The dermatologists who examined Dede concluded that the huge shoot verrugoso is consequence of the combination of a papilomavirus human (HPV) and a genetic anomaly that prevents his body to combat the infection.

Dr. Anthony Gaspari with Dede

The Government of Indonesia initially forbade that the man tree, was moved to USA by american doctors in order a receive treatment against the unusual illness, because they adduced that these people from the country want he be taken from his village, and least to analyse this blood. Anyway Dede received a series of surgeries that allowed him to improve his physical appearance and have another opportunity to begin a normal life.

Fig.3 Dede with your daughter
Anthony Gaspari was always very obssessed by this odd illness, so he performed a series of management to treat to cure Dede. Thanks to the injertos he make Dede will be able to move better his fingers.
The "man tree" is very encourage, and is thinking to look for work, initiate a normal life, and he also wants to inspire love .



At thirty seven years, he has been allowed to go out of the hospital, in Western Java, where he had nine operations to eliminate 95 per cent of the tumors, known as cutaneous horns.

2- More about the tree man

More about the tree man

Dede Koswura is a peasant of 35 years who lives in Indonesia he suffers a terrible and odd illness, species of warts grows in his face and in the extremities.
The hands have disappeared forming macizos of 30 cm. Of diameter.It Seem that all began when he had an accident and hurt a knee. Some this moment his nightmare starts as being when organic shoots like roots born on his body, this does not allow him do any type of labour activity.

By this was little because his woman abandoned him, and besides this he also lost his work. Dede Live’s in extreme poverty and is accompanied by his two children (also abandoned by his mother), His only work was a parade for tourists in a fair, as in another moment the ‘Man Elephant’ of David Lynch, did this was object of mockeries by his neighbours.

1- The tree man - introdution

Tree Man : Dede, aka

Dede, aka “Tree Man“, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears.

After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts that have baffled local doctors and medical experts for over 20 years.
His condition has become so bad that he can no longer carry out even simple household tasks. He lost his job and his wife left him to raise their two children in poverty.
For a while he worked in a freak show as the “Tree Man” to try to make ends meet.
Although he gets some support from his extended family, he’s the subject of ridicule and abuse in his village.
An American doctor has finally determined that the cause of his problem is the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) combined with a genetic condition that impedes his immune system, allowing the warts to grow unchecked.
On April 4, 2008, Dede received surgery in which medics cut off over 4 pounds of warts from his body. Although not completely healed, he can see the outline of his fingers and toes for the first time in over a decade.
Dede has two more operations to go through but is already excited to begin his new life.