What is a facial transplant?

Facial transplantation is a medical procedure in which the facial material from the corpse donor is transplanted to someone else. This procedure can be used to solve congenital congenital defects that seriously disrupted the face and replaced the face that was damaged as a result of trauma. The first facial transplant took place in India, and in fact it was the face of discontinuation , in which the face of a young girl was re -transplanted after a rupture in an agricultural accident when doctors began to transplant other organs and tissues. The reality is a particularly complex area in which it is possible to work because it is so visible, which is very obvious mistakes and mismatch. However, the face visibility itself is the one that causes the facial transplantation so attractive to reconstructing surgeons, because a poorly scarred or damaged face can be heavy social burden and facial transplantation has the potential to give someone more familiar and normal expression. The alternative to facial transplantation are skin grafts, takené from the patient's body or from a donor that tends to resemble a blanket more than a face.

There are two types of facial transplantation: partial and full. In partial facial transplantation, only part of the tissue is removed from the donor and implanted on the face of the recipient. The entire face is used to transplant the entire face and the scalp is also transplanted in the head transplant and the scalp. In all cases, the participating operation is very complex and the patient must take immunosuppressive drugs for life to avoid the rejection of the donor's face.

The French physician successfully performed partial facial transplantation for a woman who was seriously mail, and several hospitals began to examine the procedure shortly afterwards. Like many innovative surgical techniques in their early years, Ftransplant ACE was initially considered to be highly experimental and several withthis way to make it as safety and effect as possible.

When facial transplantation is performed, the recipient does not take the donor function. The face only of the face is transplanted, with the basic muscle and bone structure coming from the donor. The resulting face is often described as "hybrid" between the donor and the recipient, because the new face will not be perfect for the old one. In the case of someone who has congenital defects who decided to reconstruct the face, the new face will be completely different from the previous one.