The aim of
face transplantation, classified under composite tissue transplantations, is to gain functionality while providing aesthetic improvement that has not been achieved by classic reconstruction surgeries.
Rejection is likely to be a chronic issue with
face transplantation, so there was significant doubt as to whether or not another transplant could even be performed, let alone succeed.
A position paper in support of
face transplantation in the blind.
The patient was evaluated by a multidisciplinary team, and voluntarily enrolled in the
face transplantation clinical trial at the NYU Langone Medical Center (clinicaltrials.gov number NCT02158793; Institutional Review Board protocol # I14-00550).
However, no study to date has comprehensively assessed the recovery of emotional expression after full-face transplant or evaluated modifications in the somatosensory cortex after
face transplantation [5].
"The field of
face transplantation is young, and we are all learning about our interventions and their outcomes," Pomahac said."We studied why transplanted faces seem to age fast as well as we could, but we don't really know many other things: When does this process end?
A team of surgeons under the leadership of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle carries out in Amiens (France) on 27 November 2005 the world's first partial
face transplantation in a human.
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The country is 3rd in the world with regard to liver, bone marrow, kidney and
face transplantation operations.
Schultz et al., "CT angiography for surgical planning in
face transplantation candidates," American Journal of Neuroradiology, vol.
Kaya's surgery became the seventh
face transplantation performed in Turkey in the past two years.