French Doctors Perform First Partial Face Transplant

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:03 am

Reminds me of Nip/Tuck last week

LYON, France ï¿½ Doctors have performed the world's first partial face transplant, grafting a nose, lips and chin onto a patient disfigured by a dog bite, two French hospitals said Wednesday.

The surgery on the 38-year-old woman was performed Sunday, said a statement from medics at hospitals in Lyon and Amiens. The surgery was performed in Amiens in northern France, but doctors from both hospitals participated.

The statement said the woman was in "excellent" condition, and the transplanted organs looked "normal."

The woman was disfigured by a dog bite in May. The organs were taken from a donor who was brain dead, with the family's consent, the statement said.

Experts say the mouth and nose are the most difficult parts of the face to transplant.

Doctors elsewhere have performed scalp and ear transplants.

Post by **Illuminati** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:06 am

Reminds me of the movie Face Off.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:13 am

Yeah, thats some scary stuff.......but this could be a huge breakthrough to people who have suffered horrible accidents....it could let them have a life they would otherwise never know.
I have a friend, she was a very beautiful lady....she broke up with her boyfriend and he snuck up on her one day, threw a container of gasoline in her face, then looked at her, laughed, and tossed a match at her. She spent almost a year in a burn unit and is totally unrecognizable anymore. Something like this could give her a new life.....
This is one of those advances in medicine that you pray works because in the end it can help so many people.

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:59 pm

reminds me of the CN V and CN VII