First Face Transplant

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @05:11AM from the doctors-facing-off dept.

mriya3 writes to tell us the BBC is reporting that surgeons in France have performed the first ever face transplant. The medical team, led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, transplanted live tissue to a 36-year old woman whose face had been destroyed by a dog. From the article: "It has been technically possible to carry out such a transplant for some years, with teams in the US, the UK and France researching the procedure. [...] But the ethical concerns of a face transplant, and the psychological impact to the patient of looking different has held teams back."

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Re:Ethical concerns? by Syberghost · 2005-11-30 05:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

What if a person commits a crime and uses this surgery to escape identification and/or conviction.

Yeah, or what if an undercover cop takes the face of a major criminal and uses it to infiltrate his organization, and then the criminal takes HIS face, and goes around pretending to be him, and they have a big gunfight, and the cop kills the criminal and decides to adopt his son?

Somebody should totally make a movie about that!