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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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