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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.
I would be interested to see before/after pictures of the recipient.
Where did they get a spare face? Faces are rather hard to come by.
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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...
Let me know when the first successful full head transplant takes place.
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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...
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?
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What does the donor look like now, and what are they going to do about not having a face?
Rot in the ground as worm food. (As most organ donor do.)
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.
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as you won't recognise them afterwards to get it back.
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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.
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!
While I do applaud the planning you've put into this (I am always in favor of both helping the environment and making the women around me more attractive), I think the risk you mentioned is a bit unfounded. I mean if you can afford to get your butter face girlfriend/wife a new face, chances are you can afford to keep her around afterwards.
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.
What does the donor look like now, and what are they going to do about not having a face?
he's going to get a face from another donor. duh.
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Swordfish... Only Nicholas Cage looks a lot like Wolverine.
talk to me when they can replace a whole head. Now that would be something!
He'll just have to face up to it.
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And then they all left, for absolutely no raisin.
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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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."
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Is this the Bernie Madoff Organ Donation Agency by any chance?
no need to worry about saving face anymore now!
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".
Really this is the first super-duper-ultra-mega full face transplant, coming after the first full transplant, first super full transplant, first super-duper full transplant, and the first super-duper-ultra full transplant.
That should tell you just how full this face transplant is.
Photos or it didn't happen!
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.
What does the donor look like now, and what are they going to do about not having a face?
Most likely something like this woman.
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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.
Wow, how long have you been plotting your revenge?
As lame as it is (and even though it doesn't quite fit) it reminds me of this
Christ, I hope that was a joke.
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