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My Shocking Story - Human face transplant

At a military hospital in China, surgeons are experimenting with human face transplants to improve the lives of disfigured patients

Spain performs full face transplant

Spanish surgeons have announced that they have carried out the world's first full-face transplant. The hospital, in Barcelona, performed the surgery on a young man who lost his face in an accident five years ago. Since then, he'd been unable to swallow, speak or breathe properly. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.

Face Transplant Patient Goes Public

Five months after surgery, the first US transplant patient tells her story.

Raw Video: Spain Face Transplant Man Speaks

A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras on Monday for the first time since his surgery, and thanked his doctors and the family of the face donor. (July 26)

US Face Transplant Appears for First Time

Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation's first face transplant. Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. (May 5)

Spanish Face Transplant Patient Leaves Hospital

A Spanish man who underwent a partial face transplant appeared in public Tuesday for the first time since the January operation. (May 4)

FACE TRANSPLANT

A woman in ohio underwent a major operation to reconstruct her face after she was shot. from cnn 06.05.2009 0100AM CET

BBC-The Worlds First Face Transplant

In November 2005, 37 year old, mother of two, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person in the world to receive a new face. The decision made by French surgeons to perform the operation went against the findings of almost every other ethical committee in the world and has since sparked a fierce debate over the ethics of the operation. In the UK, a team led by surgeon Peter Butler has renewed its struggle to get approval to perform the first full face transplant at the Royal Free in London. But with the long term effects still unknown, do the risks outweigh the benefits? Are face transplants really in the best interest of the patient?

Woman Has Near-Total Face Transplant

It took 9 surgeons 22 hours to transplant 80 percent of a dead woman's face onto a woman who had lost most of hers. The surgery took place in December, but the woman recently made her first public appearance.

My Shocking Story: Human Face Transplant - The Next Patient

In China, a man whose face has been badly disfigured in an accident is given hope by a surgeon who plans to attempt a full facial transplant on him

Face Transplant (Health Guru)

Connie Culp's groundbreaking face transplant was the first of it's kind in the US. Check out more at News.HealthGuru.com

My Shocking Story: Human Face Transplant - Gou Shuzong

Gou Shuzong, one of China's most celebrated plastic surgeons, explains how he wants to help his patients live a normal life

Face Transplant Recipient Shows Her Face | CONNIE CULP | ABC News

The recipient of the first face transplant done in the United States has stepped forward to reveal the results of her surgery. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman, lost a large part of her face in 2004 when her husband shot her in the face, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. According to the Associated Press, the gunshot destroyed Culp's nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and one eye and left hundreds of bone fragments and shotgun pellets lodged in her face. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin remained. Culp could not breathe without the aid of a tube inserted into her windpipe. But now a 22-hour face transplant operation -- conducted Dec. 10 and led by Dr. Maria Siemionow of the Cleveland Clinic -- may have given Culp a new lease on life. Her expressions are still a bit wooden, and her face has a bulky, squarish look. But doctors say subsequent operations -- performed once her circulation and nerves begin to grow -- should improve her appearance further. [HEALTHDAY NEWS] MAY 6 2009 CONTINUE STORY : abcnews.go.com

Connie Culp Nation's first face transplant patient

Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation's first face transplant, and her new look was a far cry from the puckered, noseless sight that made children run away in horror. Culp's expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand. Her face is bloated and squarish, and her skin droops in big folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles. Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left. A plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Risal Djohan, got a look at her injuries two months later. "He told me he didn't think, he wasn't sure, if he could fix me, but he'd try," Culp recalled. She endured 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took parts of her ribs to make cheekbones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs ...

Face Transplant In Spain

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World's First Full Face Transplant

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Face Transplant Article

Face transplant patient can smile, blink again By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Fri Aug 22, 7:37 AM ET Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world's three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed. "There is no reason to think these face transplants would not be as common as kidney or liver transplants one day," said Dr. Laurent Lantieri, one of the French doctors who operated on a man severely disfigured by a genetic disease. In Friday's issue of the British medical journal Lancet, Lantieri and colleagues reported on their patient's status one year after the transplant. Chinese doctors also reported on their patient, two years after his surgery. Last year, the French team operated on a 29-year-old man with tumors that blurred his features in a face that looked almost monstrous. They transplanted a new lower face from a donor, giving the patient new cheeks, a nose and mouth. Six months later, he could smile and blink. The Chinese patient had part of his face ripped off by a bear. Surgeons in Xian gave him a new nose, upper lip and cheek from a donor. After a few months, he could eat, drink and talk normally, and returned home to Yunnan province in southwest China. The patients were not identified although photos were included in the reports. As is ...

BBC Horizon 2006 - The World's First Face Transplant

An excerpt from the documentary made by the BBC in 2006 showing the surgical procedure of Isabelle Dinoire's first ever partial face transplant

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Spanish hospital claims world's first full face transplant

www.timesofearth.com Madrid, Spain (TOE) - Spain has performed the world's first full-face transplant in a 24-hour operation carried out by more than 30 medics. The patient, a young farmer, had been left unable to breathe, swallow or talk properly after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago. He received new facial muscles, skin, nose, lips, jaw, teeth, palate and cheekbones in the surgery on March 20 at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. The man, believed to be in his 30s, had been dependent on artificial equipment to breathe and eat since 2005. According to the hospital, he had been operated on nine times previously without success and was therefore considered for the complete facial transplant. "The operation was carried out by a multidisciplinary team led by Dr Joan Pere Barret," the hospital said in a statement. The surgery incorporated "plastic surgery and micro-neurovascular reconstructive surgery techniques", it added. "This is the first full face transplant performed worldwide, as the 10 operations performed previously had been only partial." In the first part of the operation, the soft parts of the donor's face, including veins and arteries, were extracted before firmer tissue was removed. The young man's arteries and veins were then isolated and the donor's face checked to ensure there was a complete flow of blood. The final part of the surgery involved transplanting bones and connecting nerves to the new face. The recipient is ...

Cleveland Doctors Discuss Face Transplant

The Cleveland Clinic says a woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation. (Dec. 17)

World's first ever full face transplant completed by Spanish doctors

Spanish doctors have successfully performed the world's first full-face transplant in a 24-hour operation carried out by more than 30 medics. The patient had lost his jaw, nose and cheeks in an accident 5 years ago, and had had to breathe and be fed through tubes since. Ten partial face transplants have so far been carried out around the world, but this was the first full operation.

Face Transplants - Dr. Antell on CBS 2 Morning News

New York City Plastic Surgeon, Darrick E. Antell, MD, describes the first ever full face transplant on a woman who was horribly disfigured. The woman had suffered from extensive facial trauma, but facial surgeons were able to successfully recreate her face. A person who is gravely disfigured in an accident can undergo cosmetic surgery to look better and improve their quality of life. For more information, please visit: www.antell-md.com

Face transplant recipient revealed

May 5-Face transplant recipient revealed. After being shot in the face five years ago, the first American to receive a face transplant shows it off to the world. Karina Huber reports. SOUNDBITE: Connie Culp, Transplant patient Doctor Frank Papyay, Chairman of Dermatology and Plastic Surgery, Institute at Cleveland Clinic Dr. Maria Siemionow, Director of Plastic Surgery Research at Cleveland Clinic

Second Face Transplant in the US

Doctors in Boston replaced a man's nose, palate, upper lip and some skin, muscles and nerves in the nation's second face transplant. The 17-hour operation appears to have been a success. (April 10)

UK To Follow Face Transplant Success

video.news.sky.com British doctors say they hope to perform the world's first full face transplant within the year. They made the prediction after a surgical team in America replaced 80% of a patient's face with that of a dead female donor. Sky's Health Correspondent, Thomas Moore, reports.

Near-Total Face Transplant Press Conference - Maria Siemionow, MD

Dr. Siemionow discusses this case to members of the media assembled at the Cleveland Clinic. A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic recently performed the first near-total face transplant in the United States. The 22-hour procedure was the largest and most complex face transplant in the world; 80 percent of the patient's face was transplanted. The female patient had suffered severe facial trauma. The transplant team led by Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgery Training. Video courtesy of Cleveland Clinic

Monkey Mauling, Chimp Chomping Face Transplant

A few words about the recent chimp attack (and yes, I know that a chimpanzee is not a monkey.... let's not over-think this people....)

Spanish Hospital Claims 1st Full Face Transplant

A Spanish hospital said it has carried out the world's first full face transplant, on a man who'd been in an accident. The Barcelona facility said it took a 30-member medical team 24 hours to perform the procedure. (April 23)

Connie Culp - First Full Face Transplant Recipient Speaks

May/2009 - Shot in the face by her husband four-years-ago Connie Culp of Hopedale Ohio was left disfigured. For four years she had no nose. The bony structure that once supported her face was gone, as was most of her face. She could not breathe other than through a tracheotomy, could not smell, could not even drink or eat normally. Several dozen reconstructive surgeries left her not much better off. Connie became afraid to go out in public where doctors say children would run away from her because of her appearance. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic set out to try something that had never been done before, not to the extent they had planned for Connie, a total face transplant. Specialists say their purpose for even considering the surgery is not cosmetic. Their goal was to restore her facial functions and to give Connie the ability to eat and breath, to smell and to interact socially as normally as possible once again. Surgeons in December removed not just the skin, but the bony structures underneath, the nerves, facial muscles, lower eyelids, the palate from a local donor and in a 22 hour surgery attached the donor face to Connie. On Tuesday she was helped to a podium at the Cleveland Clinic to show the world that the operation was a success. "My name is connie, and while i know you want to focus on me, i think its appropriate that you focus on the donors family that made it possible that i could have this Christmas present i guess you could say" Doctors say the facial ...