[iwar] [fc:Face-swapping.surgery.a.reality]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Face-swapping.surgery.a.reality]
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09Jul02 WHEN John Travolta and Nicolas Cage swapped faces in the movie
thriller Face/Off, it was dismissed as science fiction.  Now two leading
plastic surgeons have drawn up plans for the world's first face
transplant.  They have outlined in the medical journal The Lancet how
they would transplant a complete face from a dead body.  Experts say the
operation is technically feasible and would be ethically justified by
the dreadful disfigurement and reclusive existence of some victims of
burns, facial cancers and accidents.  Peter Butler, of London's Royal
Free Hospital, and Shehan Hettiaratchy, of Harvard Medical School's
Transplantation Biology Research Centre, admit the idea would be
shocking to many.  Incisions would be made around the back of the head
and the scalp of the dead donor, and the face would be effectively
"de-gloved" off the skeleton.  Mr Butler said blood supply and nerve
reconnection could be achieved.  But experts disagree on how much the
recipient would look like the donor.  Because only a thin layer of
tissue would be transferred, the transplanted face would mould itself at
least partially to the features of the recipient.  But they might take
on some of the characteristics of the dead person. 

This report appears on news.com.au. 


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