16 Facts About Face transplant

Face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor.

The recipient of a face transplant will take life-long medications to suppress the immune system and fight off rejection.

An alternative to a face transplant is facial reconstruction, which typically involves moving the patient's own skin from their back, buttocks, thighs, or chest to their face in a series of as many as 50 operations to regain even limited functionality, and a face that is often likened to a mask or a living quilt.

Face transplant's parents raced to the hospital with her face in a plastic bag and a surgeon managed to reconnect the arteries and replant the skin.

Face transplant had a facial tumor called a neurofibroma caused by a genetic disorder.

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Selahattin Ozmen performed a partial face transplant on 17 March 2012 on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman at Gazi University's hospital in Ankara.

Face transplant had undergone around 35 reconstructive plastic surgery operations.

In May 2018, the first Canadian complete face transplant was performed under the leadership of plastic surgeon Daniel Borsuk at the Hopital Maisonneuve Rosemont, in Montreal, Quebec.

The Face transplant took over 30 hours and replaced the upper and lower jaws, nose, lips and teeth on Maurice Desjardins, a 64-year-old man that shot himself in a hunting accident.

On 18 July 2013, the face of a Polish man was successfully given to a Turkish man in a transplant performed by Ozkan, at Akdeniz University hospital following a 6.

Face transplant had been disfigured to the point where she could not eat or breathe on her own as a result of a traumatic injury several years ago, which had left her without a nose, right eye and upper jaw.

Brigham and Women's Hospital transplant team led by Bohdan Pomahac, performed the nation's second full face transplant on patient Mitch Hunter of Speedway, Indiana.

Face transplant lost part of his lower left leg, below the knee, and lost two digits on his right hand.

Face transplant underwent a 20-hour full face transplant in May 2011 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Nash's full face transplant was the third surgery of its kind performed in the United States, all at the same hospital.

In March 2012, a face transplant was completed at the University of Maryland Medical Center and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center under the leadership of plastic surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez and his team.