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Italians Perform Groundbreaking Full Jaw Transplant

Posted by timothy on from the jawing-is-a-verb-after-all dept.

statikuz writes "According to BBC News, Italian surgeons have performed the world's first complete jaw transplant. In eleven hours, the surgeons replaced a man's cancer-ridden jaw with a bone from a deceased donor; the donated jawbone was sterlized and stored at -196C to fight rejection, and "The current patient is said to be doing well.", says Professor Giuseppe Spriano, leader of the surgery team at the Regina Elena hospital in Rome."

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  1. And, in Hollywood.... by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jay Leno is sleeping with a loaded shotgun.

    Just in case.

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  2. Re:Feeling by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you lose your jaw, and then you get a second jaw from a cadaver, everything you do with that new jaw seems more satisfying than before, because you realize how ephemeral your lower jaw really is. At any moment you might lose it again, so you want to enjoy every moment to its fullest.

    I bet right now this guy is chewing on the sweetest, juiciest Red Man chewing tobacco he's ever tasted!