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A pensioner has appealed for help after losing his nose on a trip to the dentist.

Cyril Osment, 83, has been wearing a prosthetic hooter after having his own removed because of skin cancer.

He only realised his new nose, held on by magnets, had fallen off when he looked in a mirror at home after his dental appointment.

“I wore my glasses before going out so I must have lost it after that as they wouldn’t have stayed on,” said Cyril.

Dental staff failed to find it – and now Cyril is appealing to the public to sniff out his £1,500 lost nose.

“I’m hoping someone has picked it up,” said the grandad of Alweston, Dorset, who only had it three months.

“It was beginning to fall of regularly. I think the magnets were failing. The day before I lost it, it fell off three times while I was gardening.”

He said his new nose changed his life after surgery. “I hope the hospital will give me another one,” he added.