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- Face transplant - Mayo Clinic
A face transplant is performed to try to improve the quality of life for someone who has experienced severe trauma, burns, disease or birth defects that affected his or her face
- Face Transplant: Surgery, How It Is Done Rejection
A face transplant is a rare type of surgery that replaces your damaged facial tissue with donated tissue from someone who’s died It’s a complex procedure that requires a large team of specialized healthcare providers to connect a donor’s face to your blood vessels, nerves and muscles
- Face Transplant - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Once blood is flowing through the transplanted face, any remaining muscles and nerves are connected, and the skin and soft tissues are closed Facial transplant surgery typically takes 16 hours or more depending on how much and which parts of the face need to be restored
- A stranger’s face? The unresolved questions of face . . .
Twenty years after the first face transplant, the procedure still carries profound unknowns about safety, identity and what it means to live in a stranger’s face
- Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through . . .
Catalog; For You; The Guardian (USA) Face transplants promised hope Patients were put through the unthinkable 2025-11-28 - Fay Bound Alberti In the early hours of 28 May 20
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