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The World's First Full Face Transplant
Dave Knott writes "A thirty-member Spanish medical team has achieved the world's first full face transplant. There have been ten previous similar operations, but this is claimed to be the first total transplant, replacing all of the face including some bones. The unnamed recipient originally injured himself in a shooting accident, and received the entire facial skin and muscles — including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth — of a donor. The complex operation involved extraction of the donor's face, followed by removal of the jaw, nose, cheeks and parts of the eye cavities. Then the medical team took all of the donor face's soft tissue, including musculature, veins and nerves. In order to transplant the face, the medical team has to connect four jugular veins, extract bones and join all the musculature and blood vessels. The recipient has had a chance to see himself in the mirror, and is reportedly satisfied with the results. It is unknown whether he now looks more like John Travolta or Nicolas Cage."
The pictures and videos in the linked articles are all computer-generated at this point, so the squeamish need not worry.
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I would be interested to see before/after pictures of the recipient.
"It once again shows how facial transplantation can help a small number of people who are the most severely facially injured and for whom reconstructive surgery cannot and has not worked."
But it's not just for the unfortunate folks who have been horribly disfigured, it can be used for the bag over the head girls - you know, the ones with the awesome bodies but ugly faces.
So, save up, get the hot bodied chick a new face and no more paper bags. It will also save the environment because of less paper being used!
Then again, the new hot chick may figure out that she can move on to a hot rich guy and be done with you - so there are risks!
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And what if he isn't?
Do they have a faceback guarantee?
A stock face to fall back on?
Where did they get a spare face? Faces are rather hard to come by.
it seems that dick cheney is still about.
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The unnamed recipient originally injured himself in a shooting accident...
Dick Cheney needs to stop shooting his friends in the face.
How on Earth does he even get friends in the first place?
Just wait until this becomes a cosmetic procedure for the rich. A few years of refinement and advances in microsurgery, and then they'll be raising clones of rich people in jungle compounds down in Brazil...
What does the donor look like now, and what are they going to do about not having a face?
Let me know when the first successful full head transplant takes place.
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I think this is what you're looking for.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
This was already accomplished in Face/Off in 1997
I guess we can just forget about blooring faces on google earth.
Since anyone concerned about privacy is free to get a new face.
Despite it being 2010, it remains popular to attack science and medicine as though they do not have a significant mastery of reality or how the body works. Achievements like this demonstrate that the human body is not only understandable, but that it can be highly manipulated and changed with life-changing degrees of success.
For all the people who claim that our medical knowledge is seriously lacking or fraught with error, this fly's in your face. Prepare for an onslaught of biomedical advances that will change everything we know about health and longevity. While the human body may seem to work like black magic, perhaps like an infinitely complex analog circuit, advances in understanding are steadily being made. There are real achievers in these domains and they are standing on the shoulders of giants, accruing the tools to solve any physiological problem.
"Show us the gross half of your face, that's what we all came to see."
I don't know how they verified the 'first' full one, but I've had some pretty rough face plants of my own. Never snowboarding again... /s
Whats it called again? The one with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta... Where they like, take the guys face off, and then his face is off, so then they take the other guys face off, and put it on the other guys face. And then the guy without a face is really put off by it, so he gets the doctor to take the first offed face and put it back on him. So their faces are swapped. And then they have an epic face off with a climactic finish.
God I wish I could just remember the name of that movie...
i'm too lazy to look for old stories, but i swear this is the 4th or 5th "first full face transplant" story i've read in the last 5 years. i remember the pictures from a previous story and it didn't look good.
It begs the question: What's wrong with your faaaaaaace?
Harry Whittington got shot 4 years ago and they're only fixing his face now?
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
It's actually the forth full face transplant. See the face transplantation experiment of 1997.
A 30 member medical team is willing to reconstruct the face of someone who
blew his own face off. I wonder how much that cost?
I wonder how much it costs to vaccinate a single child
against yellow fever ?
Yeah, yeah, now you've covered your mug with a pretty face, but you're still an ugly person. And fat.
You know who you are, fuglies.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
as you won't recognise them afterwards to get it back.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
There is no truth to the rumor that the recipient is now referred to by his friends as "that two-faced bastard."
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
...this was covered by his HMO
I read it wrong.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
Swordfish... Only Nicholas Cage looks a lot like Wolverine.
talk to me when they can replace a whole head. Now that would be something!
Healthcare in Spain is universal and free, so I guarantee you this guy paid NOTHING and the doctors were happy to do the work for the chanllenge as part of their daily job. There are many things I don't like in Spain but healthcare is pretty good.
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Fingerprints versus retina? Oh Brave New World
On a serious note, may I be the first to say this gives new meaning to having a facial.
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get rejected? get a new face and try again.
The last first was first until this first came along and included *some* bones.
This first will be the first until the next first included more bones.
I think they're on to something here. Not only have they found a way to generate repeating headliners, they can do so farther and farther by redefining 'face'.
'Researchers today performed the first really really for real face transplant. The previous first removed enough skin from the front side of the person so that their navel was pulled upwards to serve as a third nostril. In this record shattering surgery, the skin was pulled even farther upwards, so that now her pubic hair serves as a beard. According to Dr. Rob Zombie they have yet to solve the problem of the patient urinating onto her dinner plate from her chin. "We tried a diaper, but then she couldn't breathe." Dr. John Carpenter stated "We don't expect to have the problems that we previously with this patient, specifically her negative reaction to having three nostrils. This time we're 'replanted' [their term for transplants performed on the same person but involving different locations] most of the old evolutionary hold-overs that were previously user to define 'face'. We find it highly unlikely the patient will state objections to having a beard on her face if she can't see in a mirror. We moved her eyes around back to make room for the beard." Dr. Zombie added "And if she does, so what? If we don't want to listen to her, we've moved her mouth too. We'll just make her sit down. It wasn't strictly necessary to move her mouth that far, but we had to do something. It was impossible to work with all that screaming going on."
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
> For all the people who claim that our medical knowledge is seriously lacking or fraught with error, this fly's in your face.
They put a fly in his face???????
"Pics or it didn't happen! Pics or it didn't happen! Pics or it--- gah, oh my God, it happened."
no need to worry about saving face anymore now!
Would there be, if any, psycological impacts of the procedure. Even for someone who has their face destroyed,the brain still sees the image in the mirror and recognizes the self. The brain still "knows" it is that person, that identity. Similar to the way you may not see someone for 30 years, and they gain, or lose alot of weight, and may have facial hair... but can still be recognizable. What happens when they see somebody else? How does the brain's facial recognition work? Can it identify the new face in the mirror as "me"? Oddly the film reference as humorous as it is, may not be that bad. IRIC the characters in question also battled depression and irrationality that seemed to be results of having a totally different face.
face off [...] face is off [...] face off [...] guy without a face is really put off [...] the first offed face [...] an epic face off
I don't remember what the movie was called, but the parody in Mad #363 was called "F*!@/OFF".
... your body rejecting your face
Photos or it didn't happen!
And all of a sudden, Richard Nixon is being blamed for a whole string of Liquor Store robberies... :-)
Now that I've got this new face and you don't know what I look like any more, I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to my first one, Mister Cheney! I was kinda attached to it.
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http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 Roman_Mir shot his big trolling mouth off in what was quoted in that url and Roman_Mir refused to answer up to his outright screwup there also. Talk about "getting schooled", lmao!
Roman_Mir isn't one to talk, period, per that URL above.
So this would be an epic faceplant?
I wonder if there will someday be an illegal market for this sort of thing, for criminals who want to disguise themselves.
I thought this article was going to be about Andrew Lloyd Webber. Obviously his was meant to be kept secret. I'll say no more.
And millions of teens crash as their cars try to turn into their cellphones.