New skin

A face graft : A new frontier in medicine? Or sheer freakiness?

I'm sorry - I supposed if I were given the opportunity to have A face again, a face graft would be the least of my worries. But..... but.... think about it.

"The recipient would have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs for life, which carry considerable long-term health risks, says the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which formed a working party to look at the issue earlier this year. Also, it is not known how well an individual and their loved ones would adapt psychologically to a completely new face...... It is hard to predict what the person would look like after a face transplant. The procedure would involve taking skin and underlying tissues from a dead donor and placing them on the living recipient.

Computer modelling suggests the new face would neither resemble the donor nor recipient's pre-injury self. The face should take on more of the characteristics of the skeleton of the recipient than the soft tissues of the donor. The recipient should be able to eat, drink and communicate again through a wide variety of facial expressions and
mannerisms."

It just sounds weird and a little unreal. Wearing someone else's face. Although I suspect it is easy for me to say these things now because I haven't had any gross disfigurement. (No, a broken nose and old stiching's don't count.)


I hope I never come to that point though.