ace to Face, the domestic violence project of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, is a community service to which Dr. Truswell is dedicated. While serving on the Public Information Committee of the AAFPRS, Dr.Truswell helped with the organization of the project. Domestic violence is a national crisis. Too many of the victims suffer low self-esteem. Baring the scars of battery often impedes recovery. Participants in this project offer their services pro bono to the abused. By erasing the physical signs of abuse, self esteem can be raised and recovery hastened. Dr. Truswell has operated on a number of these victims helping them get back into the community. Several times each year the staff of the Center holds chemical peel clinics and donates all of the proceeds to this AAFPRS project.

Medical education, both for the public and the training of residents is an important service. Dr. Truswell presents several seminars each year in Western Massachusetts for the public. This is a way for people to learn about facial plastic surgery, meet Doctor Truswell and his staff, see the actual results of his work and ask any and all questions. Dr. Truswell lectures the residents each year at the University of Connecticut Medical School in facial plastic surgery. Recently he has presented a Grand Rounds lecture to the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Columbia University on "Facial Reconstruction with Flaps and Grafts". For the last several years he has presented facial plastic surgery papers to Northeast Medical Associates, a multispecialty group of academic and private physicians, at meetings across the United States and Europe.

r. Truswell was program chairman for their annual meeting in 2000 in Colorado. In September, 1998 he presented a paper on "The Use of Lasers in a Private Facial Plastic Surgery Office" to the Facial Plastic Assistants Program at the annual meeting of the AAFPRS in San Antonio, Texas.