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Friday, February 28, 2003

First face-transplant to be performed

A severely burned Irish girl will likely be the first recipient of a face-transplant.

Once a board of ethics, headed by Falklands War veteran Simon Weston has given the go-ahead, Lena will receive the face of a dead donor, removing her own severely burned face...
The surgery involves "degloving" the donor's face from a four-hour-old corpse, severing the top layer of skin and then grafting it onto the recipient's face.

Link Discuss (Thanks, Heath!)

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