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07-29-2010, 03:10 PM
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Worlds First FULL Face Transplant ?
Ok so we've all seen pictures of partial face transplants, you know the clip ones but this articles claims this guy to be the lucky owner of the worlds first FULL face transplant MADRID — A Spanish man who underwent the world’s first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor. Identified only as Oscar, the 31-year-old spoke with considerable difficulty at a news conference at Vall d’Hebron hospital, where he was operated on in late March. During the 24-hour surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man. He has been described as a farmer who was unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago. The head of the surgical team, Dr. Joan Pere Barret, said Monday the man will need between a year and 18 months of physical therapy and is expected to regain up to 90 percent of his facial functions. The news conference was called because the man was being released from the hospital and sent home. He is now able to drink liquids and eat soft foods, and has been able to speak for the past two months, the hospital said in a statement. The patient also has regained feeling in most of his face and is partly recovering movement of his muscles. One good sign was that a week after the operation, he had to be shaved because of beard growth. But he also suffered acute rejection twice — once four weeks after the surgery and again between the second and third months. Both times, the new face was saved with medication, the statement said.  What do you think ? |
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07-29-2010, 03:42 PM
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Re: Worlds First FULL Face Transplant ?
Damn. Wonder what he looked like before. I'm sure he'll look even better as time goes on.  |
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07-29-2010, 09:06 PM
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Re: Worlds First FULL Face Transplant ?
yeah looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing someone else would be a bit of a mindfuck, be strange enough having someone else's hand or arm, but a different face wow !
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07-29-2010, 11:39 PM
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Re: Worlds First FULL Face Transplant ?
what if you didnt have a choice of a face and they gave you someone that everybody hates - rosie o'donnell, for example. god, id be fucking pissed. |
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07-29-2010, 11:48 PM
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Re: Worlds First FULL Face Transplant ?
Holy Shit! I exhaled into the bong with laughter 
__________________ “Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.” ― Dean Koontz, Strange Highways |
