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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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| 389856 | 2005-09-20 23:56:00 | Just when you think it cannot get any stranger: It sounds like an idea pulled straight from the mind of Edgar Allen Poe or Rod Serling, but face transplantation isn't a fiction, but a medical procedure that is now technically possible; Cleveland Clinic ( . clevelandclinic . org/) may soon become the first facility (http://www . msnbc . msn . com/id/9397182/" target="_blank">www . clevelandclinic . org/) may soon become the first facility (http:) to perform it . Dr . Maria Siemionow, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Cleveland, is currently interviewing prospective candidates for the procedure, which by all accounts teeters at the cutting edge of reconstructive surgery . A face transplant involves removing the face, facial muscles and subcutaneous fat from the recipient . Then, a donor face from a cadaver - complete with lips, chin, ears, nose, eight major blood vessels and even some bone - is grafted into place . Unsurprisingly the procedure and Dr . Siemionow's plans to perform it has caused some controversy . Critics say it's far too risky and warn that a rejection of the transplanted tissue could produce horrifyingly ghoulish results . "This idea needs more evaluation . What we do know either can't be quantified or the risks clearly outweigh the benefits," Karen Maschke, associate for ethics and science policy at the Hastings Center, recently told The New York Times . "Look, a lot of science is boosterism . "People always think they're going to be cured by new treatments and life will be normal again, but that's usually not the case . " Now, if they can do something about premature grey hair and loss of it . . . . . (partially c/p from SiliconValleyNews ( . siliconvalley . com/mld/siliconvalley/contact_us/about/" target="_blank">www . siliconvalley . com) ) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 389857 | 2005-09-21 00:36:00 | only need to watch "face off" to see the possibilties ;) | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 389858 | 2005-09-21 01:15:00 | That settles it, I will donate my face to science.... | Metla (12) | ||
| 389859 | 2005-09-21 02:07:00 | Wonder if they'll have a catalogue of donated/stored faces or if the recipient will just have to accept the next donor. The possibilities are endless. There's got to be another movie in this somewhere - though "face-off" did cover it quite well. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 389860 | 2005-09-21 02:22:00 | It doesn't work. Just look at Michael Jackson - he wanted to look like Peter Pan but instead ended up looking like a tired, chain-smoking albino rat. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 389861 | 2005-09-21 09:12:00 | It doesn't work . Just look at Michael Jackson - he wanted to look like Peter Pan but instead ended up looking like a tired, chain-smoking albino rat . Isnt that a bit cruel to the rat . PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 389862 | 2005-09-21 18:38:00 | I remember there was a film starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage that shows they swapped face with each other... What was the title again? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 389863 | 2005-09-21 20:28:00 | It was called face-off /me hopes he isnt standing in line behind Metla at the face swapping clinic I wonder if you can keep your old one and keep it on ice in case you want to swap back. Would certainly give a new meaning to the phrase '2-faced' |
Myth (110) | ||
| 389864 | 2005-09-21 20:50:00 | Metla me boy Now that you've donated your face to science too, do you have anything left to donate? You think they will accept the offer? LOL sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 389865 | 2005-09-22 00:46:00 | 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 . |
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