Cleveland Doc Wants to Try Face Transplant
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RE: Cleveland Doc Wants t
All I get is, "No article found."
If somebody wants to do this we should let them though. What the hell?
All I get is, "No article found."
If somebody wants to do this we should let them though. What the hell?
I heard the story on the radio the other day, about this being performed on a women in france. It appears there is also some questions about how this doctor choses his patients..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1897858,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1897858,00.html
RE: Cleveland Doc Wants t
Personally I think it is crazy, but if someone wants to do this, by all means, go for it.
Personally I think it is crazy, but if someone wants to do this, by all means, go for it.
I can see the value in this.....in cases where a face has been grossly disfigured. ...due to accident etc. In some ways this has been done for some time now.....but not with the name "face transplant" . Burn victims have had major corrective face surgery. The difference might be the addition of bone structure /or replacing bone structure to redefine the features.
(and aside........being the spy novel enthusiast I am......I think that spys go through "face transplants" to conceal their identity .......when they come out of the "job".
or maybe that is just the fantasy I impose on it... :wink: Either way......it IS intriguing.;-)
(and aside........being the spy novel enthusiast I am......I think that spys go through "face transplants" to conceal their identity .......when they come out of the "job".
or maybe that is just the fantasy I impose on it... :wink: Either way......it IS intriguing.;-)
RE: Cleveland Doc Wants t
What they're doing is actually taking the facial skin and underlying soft tissue formations from a cadaver and using them to replace badly disfigured tissue on a patient who has been unable to function normally in society due to the disfigurement. It isn't a cosmetic procedure like a rhinoplasty (nose job) or a facelift, so it's hardly "crazy", in that it actually restores a person to the likelihood of being able to live a relatively normal life.
What they're doing is actually taking the facial skin and underlying soft tissue formations from a cadaver and using them to replace badly disfigured tissue on a patient who has been unable to function normally in society due to the disfigurement. It isn't a cosmetic procedure like a rhinoplasty (nose job) or a facelift, so it's hardly "crazy", in that it actually restores a person to the likelihood of being able to live a relatively normal life.
