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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.'
Fans of Cage or Travolta will already know this procedure is old news. It was performed on a police officer to infiltrate a prison in the movie Face Off.
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I saw this in a movie once...it didn't work out.
is john travolta and nicholas cage going to be the first two to have this done?
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I saw a documentary on this process a few years ago. It was truly fascinating what they were able to do. They took these two men, Sean Archer and Castor Troy, and transplanted their faces onto each other. I'm surprised that it has taken this long for another test subject to come forward.
Surely this technology has been around a lot longer....I could have sworn I saw a movie with that Saturday Night Fever guy who had his face ripped off and stuck on Nicholas Cage's body.
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Didn't Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd do this in the movie "Trading Faces"? :)
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Also, Nick Cage and John Travolta in Face/Off. Your typical action movie.
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If we were talking about movies starring Travolta that number would be much lower.