SELaplana >> Health, Surgery >> First Successful Full-Face Transplant Patient

The man in the photo is the first patient to undergo a successful full-face transplant.

He still looks weird but he’s better now after getting a new nose, face-skin and other parts from a dead donor.

Here’s part of the news story about him:

Before the surgery in March, Oscar – a farmer who shot himself accidently in the face five years ago – could not breathe, eat or speak on his own. He had undergone nine previous operations, and with each round of surgery it became increasingly clear that a complete transplant was his only option.

He then waited two years for a suitable donor, a deceased man near his own age. During the wait, therapists helped prepare him for the transformation the operation would bring. So far, Oscar is adjusting well. “Integration with his new image has been very easy, although there will always be an old Oscar and a new one,” Dr Barret said.

During the surgery, doctors extracted tissue and bones from the donor’s face and placed them in preservation liquid. They then transplanted lips, nose, teeth, jaw, cheekbones and tear ducts onto Oscar. His body rejected the new features twice, but doctors were able to successfully treat him. “It was a case of life or death,” Dr Barret told reporters immediately after the procedure.

Oscar can now move his eyebrows, upper lids, jaw and parts of his cheeks. He has regained feeling in most of his face and hair has even started to grow.

“Does his face look like the donors’ face?” said the surgeon. “We were afraid of that but it doesn’t at all. The family believes that he looks quite like he did before.”

Oscar has been able to speak for the past two months and can drink fluids and eat soft foods. He has not been released from hospital and allowed home. He is expected to recover up to 90 per cent of normal movement and sensitivity, but that will take between 12 and 18 months of rehabilitation, doctors said. – UK Independent

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