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The New Face Lift
RiotXIX writes to tell us that US surgeons plan on moving forward with their newest experimental medical practice, a face transplant. Doctors have already succeeded in making this practice a reality with cadavers donated for medical research and will soon begin interviewing a shortlist of patients to determine who, if anyone, will be first up for this procedure. From the article: 'The chance it will work is around 50% and experts have expressed safety and ethical concerns about the procedure. The recipient would have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs for life, which carry considerable long-term health risks, says the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which formed a working party to look at the issue earlier this year.'
Face/Off was about the worst movie ever. What makes people think the reality will be any better?
I can see it now...
I want Cowboy Neal's face, there's room to grow into it.
Trolling is a art,
I saw a movie about this once where one guy takes his face/off and changes it with another guy who also takes his face/off. Anyway, they end up chasing each other around for a while and eventually face/off to fight.
I think it was called "Two Guys that Traded Faces".
if Brad Pitt is a donor? I could really use the sex.
...science useful for the slashdot masses.
What? You know you guys are ugly as sin, admit it!
(hey it's a joke!)
Michael Jackson had this done years ago.
That sounds a bit cruel, maybe they just need to drink a lot instead.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
How does this go with ID-Theft? Yup.. that's me.. see I look like me in this ID.... eeek!
Why bother with the drugs? You'd think they'd already be used to rejection.
/one ticket, aisle seating please
When will Michael Jackson sign up for this? And what will he look like next?
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I think that it would be more responsible to first try this procedure on animals, like monkeys or pigs. For instance, maybe they could transplant a pig's face to a monkey. They might even market these to insane rich people as "exotic pets."
Another idea I had that would have a similar market is cosmetic surgery for dogs.
Update: Just on a whim I googled "cosmetic surgery for dogs" and found this. I'm gonna go throw up now.
Arrrrr!
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
. . . So can I take those and get laid every time I hit on a girl?
i don't care
Dr Siemionow told Associated Press: "You want to choose patients who are really disfigured, not someone who has a little scar."
I nominate this guy.
Doctors have already succeeded in making this practice a reality with cadavers
Let me get this straight. Doctors have "succeeded" in attaching one dead guys face to another dead guys skull. No problems with rejection, I take it. And the recipient hardly looked any worse than before the transplant, I mean, considering the bastards were dead, I'm guessing the failure rate was not very low.
Anybody want a peanut?
"I'd be a little weirded out if someone started walking around with my dead wife's face"
me too, especially as I thought it was still buried under the patio.
It puts the lotion on its skin...
Shades of Grayden
How dare you inject logic and reason into this blantly anti-plastic surgery rant.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
The recipient would have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs
As far as rejection goes, I've heard there have been a good progress with transplanting pig's organs instead, so why don't we... Oops, never mind
bad joke, bad joke
"You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
TLC anounces a bold new reality TV show...Trading Faces.
The possible side effects are pretty scary, though. My favorite quote is from the CNN Article:
"[Critics] paint the frighteningly surreal image of a worst-case scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before."
And I used to think that anal leakage was a scary side effect, that's nothing comparing to a soughing face! Thank god I'm not in a position for now where I have to make a decision like that, but it sure is a high price to pay for looking "normal" again.
Now, that would be completely unprecedented.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I guess the word "faceplant" no longer solely refers to me tripping while going upstairs/while going downstairs/walking outside/walking around in my dorm room.
I think that's just making things worse. Now we have to picture some guy walking around with a sloppy imperfect copy of his dead wife's face.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
... welcome our new face swapping overlords.
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