Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer

Hugh Pickens writes "A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone in a transplant on a man whose face was slashed by a bear. The Chinese graft included muscles, nerves, blood vessels, cartilage and skin and included an intact salivary gland, another first. Two years after the procedure, the man can eat, drink and speak, thanks to the gradual fusing of transplanted nerves and muscles with what remained of the patient's own. This transplant together with the another ground breaking transplant last year by French doctors that removed a huge tumor that had completely infiltrated and disfigured their patient's face, now sets the stage for a full facial transplant."

Comments

remember the monkey?

[amnezick]

this one reminds me of a crazy doctor (i don't remember his name) that replaced a monkey's head and the the operation was a success. But it was still seen as immoral so no more replacing monkey heads. And in my opinion it was one big painful fist in the face of creationists.

Please americans, go back

[Anonymous Coward]

Please americans, do not drop more bombs in Afganistan. Come back to your country, and do not fiance wars like the Georgian genocide of Osetia.

London 2012

[bigtallmofo]

This is one of the 12 year olds that is planning to compete in London 2012... Nobody will suspect a thing!

Chinese Olympic Gymnast