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Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer

Posted by timothy on from the get-in-line-for-jolie-lips dept.

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."

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  1. Face/Off by cory_p82 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Awesome! Science will soon catch up with Hollywood! What's next? Will John Travolta actually get to have wings added on?

  2. a quote by the doctor performing the surgery by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This quote by the lead doctor, Shuzhong Guo, was recorded by our reporter.

    I want to take his face.... off!

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    You can't handle the truth.
  3. Re:ok, deadpan humor was too deadpan by djupedal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Zoom - right over my head - time for more meds, thanks.