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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. Units... by addaon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    -196 Celcius being better known as 77 Kelvin, familiar to us all as the temperature of liquid nitrogen.

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  2. Why organic? by avalys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does a jawbone need to be organic? Couldn't an artificial one be made of titanium or something?

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