What is a Face Transplant?

Full face transplantation refers to the operation of a person who has suffered severe facial trauma to transplant other people's facial organs to achieve facial recovery through medical surgery. All face skin, muscles, organs, etc. were transplanted. The world's first full-face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010. On May 9, 2011, Dallas Waynes, the first patient in the United States to undergo a full-face transplant, made his first public appearance through a press conference on the 9th.

Full face transplant

Full face transplantation refers to the operation of a person who has suffered severe facial trauma to transplant other people's facial organs to achieve facial recovery through medical surgery. All face skin, muscles, organs, etc. were transplanted. The world's first full-face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010. On May 9, 2011, Dallas Waynes, the first patient in the United States to undergo a full-face transplant, made his first public appearance through a press conference on the 9th.
Chinese name
Full face transplant
Definition
Surgery to transplant someone's face
First year
year 2010
Place
Full-face transplantation is a highly technical operation. The first person in the world to receive a full-face transplant was the Spanish man Oscar. He was discharged from the hospital on July 25, 2010. For the first time, he opened the layers of gauze and performed surgery The appearance of the back is shown in front of the world.
The 31-year-old (2010) Oscar is an ordinary farmer in Spain. Five years ago, Oscar was unable to breathe, eat, and talk properly because of a serious disfigurement of his face caused by a tragic shooting. In March 2010, after a two-year plan, 30 experts from Barcelona Hospital, Spain, performed a 24-hour full-face transplant on Oscar. All facial skin, muscles, eyelids, nose, upper and lower lips, upper and lower jaw, teeth, and cheekbones were transplanted.
According to the hospital, Oscar had 9 local repairs before undergoing a full face replacement surgery, but all ended in failure. In the end, led by a doctor named JP Barret, a group of doctors successfully replanted the muscles, nose, lips, and maxilla of the patient's face after a series of neuromuscular and cosmetic surgeries for up to 24 hours , Soft mouth covers, all teeth, cheek bones and other facial functional organs. This is the world's first full face replacement surgery. [1]
The first face transplant in the United States was completed in a clinic in Cleveland in 2008. Doctors replaced 80% of the facial skin for a patient named Connie Karp in 22 hours; the first face transplant in the world was in France in 2005 Completed; the world's first full-face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010.

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