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Man Receives Artificial Face
jeffy124 writes: "Doctors in Kentucky have successfully implanted an artificial face. The surgery was required because of a rare fungal infection called mucormycosis in the man's sinus cavity that required removal his nose, eyes, cheekbones, upper jaw, and some teeth. The surgery required reconstruction of the mouth using tissue from his legs and facial bones were replaced with titanium bridging on which a prosthetic face is placed."
Only back then it was a silicone bridge.
Seriously, though, how does this affect the medical world? It doesn't seem to revolutionize anything.
"Man receives nervous system transplant"
Now that would be a cool story.
This sort of thing is by no means new - there are ample cases of facial prostheses in use today. It's not unknown to have cancer patients with similar, albeit less extensive, facial reconstruction necessary after surgery. The process is pretty similar, you implant magnets in the remaining bone structure, or attach them to a titanium superstructure implanted in the bone if the defect is very large, and attach a silicon prosthesis using those.
There really are some amazing feats being performed every day by the medical profession. People should read more or at least watch the Discovery Channel on occasion, then they wouldn't be as surprised by things like this make CNN.
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am i the only one around here who nearly barfed at that story.
i cannot begin to imagine what life must have been like for that bloke.
it makes the latest kernel release seem pretty insignificant.
That man tried to kill mah Daddy
The spelling in the title for "Receives" should have the i and e swapped: "Recieves"
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Except after c.
Oh, and you forgot the t in your first nitpick.
This type of thing makes me think that the government should get that great big stick out their collective butts and let embryonic stem cell and controlled cloning continue. Now, whilst I don't care to have genetically identical copies of myself running around wouldn't it be great if we could grow this dude another face and graft it back on? Wouldn't be perfect for sure, but it would be much better than a silicone prosthetic. Not to mention that heart disease, liver disease et. al. patients could greatly benefit. When the government throwing up road blocks to this sort of thing they are merely hurting people, and delaying the inevitable.
Then there's the "when is an embryo a person" debate that is best left elsewhere...
...for this man
...in Vanilla Sky, "Oh thats great. Because for a second I thought you were talking about...A FUCKING MASK!"
Hearts and kidneys are TINKERTOYS
Guy's got a new face, but collection agencies calling every day asking for their money (RTFA). Not too cool. Friend of mine got stuck with $100k of medical bills after his health insurance company said nogo to paying for a partial pancreas removal. He was filing for bankruptcy right around the time he died in a diabetic coma (half a pancreas will do that to you.) Can you tell I'm bitter?
Also, the article mentioned that he wears sunglasses to hide the fact that his "fake eyes don't blink." Article wasn't clear - was he blind, then?
Still, cool story that a face can be "transplanted", so to speak.
Oh, and you forgot the obligatory exceptions, such as beige, counterfeit, deity, eight, either, foreign, forfeit, freight, heifer, height, heinous, heir, heist, leisure, neigh, neighbour, neither, reign, seismic, seize, sovereign, surfeit, their, veil, vein, weight, weir, weird, Neil, Sheila and their (no pun intended) derivatives.
And then are the ones that go the other way, like conscience, efficient, science, society, species, not to mention many plurals such as fallacies, fancies, etc.
These aren't complete lists - there are several other examples that I've neglected to mention but I'm damned if I can remember them all now.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
That's a singularly horrible sounding disease - "Killer fungus ate my face."
Shiver.
Choice of masters is not freedom.