Back when I worked on a show for Discover Health there was a reconstructive surgery case that we were using on the show where a woman had her face blown off by her boyfriend. It was horiffic, really horrific. We couldn't even show the before on TV. She wore face bandages wrapped around her head all the time. On top of that she had skin flaps growing where they shouldn't have been and her nose was in the wrong place because the doctors just did whatever they could to salvage the skin and parts and have blood flowing through them so that later if she could be reconstructed they'd have them to work from. A team of doctors were working on putting prostetics and such together to rebuild her face. She was such a sweet lady too. The case gave me nightmares.

Torn OFF is a different story... I'd heard she'd just been mauled.