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Thread ID: 61922	2005-09-20 23:56:00	Hope They Find An Attractive One!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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389866	2005-09-22 05:24:00	There are a lot of problems with this procedure . Firstly the donor needs to be alive (life support) to keep the blood flow through the facial tissue . You cannot take dead tissue from a cadaver . Secondly there are always rejection issues with transplants and here you'd be dealing with a whole face . Could get ugly . :eek: Thirdly there is a risk that parts of the transplant won't take which means dead tissue here and there . Interestingly the least risky bit is the surgical technology . Plastic surgeons are pretty good . The more likely scenario is that in the future burn victims will have new tissue grown for themselves from their own stem cells . No rejection problems . I would have thought that it would be difficult to get any other type of tissue from a corpse .	Cicero (40)
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