About Face Transplants

This undated two picture combo provided by The Lancet, shows an unidentified 29-year-old man with tumors, left, and the same man, right, after a transplanted new lower face from a donor. AP

A great majority of us wished or are still wishing to be somebody else…right? Well, when I was a kid in highschool, I wished that would to have the look of Slash, the guitarist of Guns N’ Roses of ’90s notoriety (among other rock gods during that era).

I also wished to have the face of George Clooney, as to what he looked during his ‘ER’ series days.

Hmmm, this news clip and pic I saw on my news feed subscription might just be that answer to my fantasies and probably yours.

Scientists and doctors from France have just reported on Friday, August 22 that their yet-unnamed face transplant patient has been able to blink and smile, two years after his operation (See photo).

Imagine that, like in the movie Face-Off, medical science is now capable of transplanting faces. Talk about “truth being stranger than fiction” huh? As was written, it took a series of complicated surgery and anti-tissue rejection drugs were needed for the doctors and scientists to pull off this unprecedented feat. It is a long-way off before this technology would be perfected. But in my opinion, give it another 5 to 10 years, this type of surgery would be commonplace like face lifts and Botox injections.

Hmmm, I could hear a “skin doctor” in not-so-distant future telling a client: “Mam, if you would really want to look younger, I have a list of freshly harvested faces from fresh cadavers for your perusal…” Yikes!

Face transplants anyone? c”,

For more: Face transplant patient can smile, blink again – Yahoo! News