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- Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through . . .
The case for face transplants seemingly made, several teams scrambled to perform their nation’s first The US saw the first partial face transplant (2008), then the first full one (2011); the first African American recipient (2019); the first face and double hand transplant combined (2020); the first to include an eye (2023)
- Face Transplants: 20 Years of Hope, Hardship and Ethical . . .
Many patients face intrusive media attention, uneven support networks, and inadequate preparation for the lifelong burden of immunosuppressant drugs The ethical challenges are profound: face transplants take otherwise healthy people with facial disfigurements and turn them into lifetime patients
- Face Transplants Promised Hope. Patients Were Put Through the . . .
Face Transplants Promised Hope Patients Were Put Through the Unthinkable (theguardian com) 6 Posted by msmash on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:00PM from the more-than-skin-deep dept
- A stranger’s face? The unresolved questions of face . . .
Twenty years after the first face transplant, the procedure still carries profound unknowns about safety, identity and what it means to live in a stranger’s face
- The Guardian
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- Long-Term Outcomes Good for Face Transplant Recipients, Study . . .
Burns were the cause of another 22% of face transplants In 52% of cases, a full-face transplant was required and in 48% the transplant restored only a part of the face
- An Update on the Survival of the First 50 Face Transplants . . .
In this study, the overall survival of the face transplants is encouraging These data suggest that the acceptable long-term survival of face transplants makes them a reconstructive option for extensive facial defects
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