Posts Tagged ‘face transplant’

Face Transplants Available to Wounded Veterans

Face transplant surgery will be available to wounded war veterans, thanks to a new multimillion dollar contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense.  Currently, less than ten face transplants have been performed worldwide, but eight more are expected to be performed in the next 18 months.

Wounded war veterans will be able to get face [...]

Face Transplant Patient Makes Public Plea

James Maki, the second face transplant patient in the U.S., is taking his incredible story to the public in an effort to encourage organ donation.
In John Woo’s Oscar-nominated 1997 film Face/Off, the characters portrayed by Nicholas Cage and John Travolta literally switched faces, each having the other’s face surgically attached to their own skull in [...]

Plastic Surgery News – June 19, 2009

In this week’s edition of Plastic Surgery News, we’ll share one face transplant recipient’s message to the media, and learn what doctors have discovered about the way we age. We’ll also introduce you to a website where women can get breast implants for free, and tell you what to do about oversized ears. Finally, we’ll [...]

Face Transplant Breaks the Rules

Face Transplant Breaks the Rules
This month, doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston performed the world’s seventh face transplant, and may have sidestepped the hospital’s policy in the process.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, performed the surgery and acknowledged that the patient had not undergone immunosuppressant therapy before the operation–a deviation from the hospital’s [...]