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- Face transplant - Mayo Clinic
A face transplant is performed to try to improve the quality of life for someone who has experienced severe trauma, burns, disease or birth defects that affected his or her face
- Katie Stubblefield Face Transplant Patient Story | Cleveland . . .
Including her face transplant, Katie has endured more than 17 surgeries at Cleveland Clinic Collectively, those procedures have given her the capability to breathe, chew, and swallow more effectively She’s also able to use her face to better express emotions
- Mayo Clinic performs successful face transplant, restoring . . .
In the 19 years since the first face transplant was performed, more than 50 have been done around the world Survival outcomes for these transplants are encouraging, according to a recent JAMA Surgery study
- Face Transplant - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Once blood is flowing through the transplanted face, any remaining muscles and nerves are connected, and the skin and soft tissues are closed Facial transplant surgery typically takes 16 hours or more depending on how much and which parts of the face need to be restored
- Face Transplant gt; Fact Sheets gt; Yale Medicine
A face transplant is a surgical procedure in which all or part of a patient’s disfigured face is replaced with facial tissue taken from a deceased donor It’s a life-changing procedure for people who have suffered a significant facial injury or who were born with a serious facial deformity
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