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Plactic Surgery - Human Face Transplant
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 16, 2016, 4:34 am
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Watch and learn as we walk you through the stunning new medical
advancements in face transplants. Not only will you meet the
plastic surgeons involved in face transplants, you'll also see
some amazing before and after pictures of the patients. See
their tragedy and their accomplishments as highly-skilled
medical surgeons use their plastic surgery knowledge to perform
ground-breaking face transplants.
Above: A family photo of nine-year-old Sandeep Kaur before a
grass-cutting machine completely amputated her face and scalp.
The machine caught one of Sandeep's braids and then pulled her
head in. Sandeep's mother, who witnessed the accident, said: "I
didn't know where her face was. Everything was peeled off."
Sandeep Kaur's face arrived in two pieces at a hospital in India
where it was replanted onto her skull 10 years ago. "Looking at
it, I said: 'Is it possible to do anything at all?'" said
Sandeep's doctor, Abraham Thomas, one of India's top
microsurgeons, who was on duty when Sandeep arrived at the
hospital unconscious with her face in a plastic bag. "It was
actually quite a frightening sight," said Dr. Thomas. "The first
response was 'Oh my, God, I cannot do that (reattach her
face).'"
Sandeep Kaur after her groundbreaking face replant. Although
they didn't realize it at the time, Sandeep's doctors were
making history. Sandeep's operation is considered the world's
first full-face replant. It has inspired a team of doctors in
Louisville, Ky., to attempt the first human face transplant.
Sandeep Kaur aged 19, 10 years after the accident that ripped
off her face and nearly claimed her life. Today, Sandeep is
training to be a nurse. Says Sandeep: "I think God had to have
sent Dr. Thomas. It was such a big tragedy." Her miraculous
surgery has begged the question: If it's possible to attach
one's own torn-off face, is it possible to transplant a face?
John Barker, a research scientist and the man behind the team of
U.S. doctors who plan to attempt the first face transplant.
"Hopefully we can dispel some of the myths that are out there …
of face transplantation. This is not a Hollywood movie. This is
science," says Barker, who is among the many doctors inspired by
Sandeep Kaur's face-replacement procedure.
"We've now transplanted heart, liver, lung, pancreas, bone,
skin, nerve — so why aren't we doing it on the face?" asks Joe
Banis, a top reconstructive surgeon in the United States and
part of the human-face transplant team. Banis, 56, is renowned
for his ability to rebuild faces, including that of a man who
lost part of his face after falling 45 feet from a construction
crane and skewering himself with an iron rod.
Transplant surgeon Nadey Hakim (left) was part of the surgical
team that transplanted the hand and forearm of a dead man onto
amputee Clint Hallam. Anti-rejection drugs tricked Hallam's body
into believing that the transplanted tissue was the same as his
own. "There is no doubt that it was a historical day," recalls
Hakim. "We saw the history happening in front of our eyes."
Clint Hallam's newly transplanted hand and forearm. The 14-hour
operation highlighted the possibilities for other cutting-edge
transplants, including a face transplant. More than two years
later, however, the pioneering operation went disastrously
wrong. Hallam asked surgeons to remove the hand.
Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido before being hit by a drunk driver
that left her face permanently disfigured. The car in which
Jacqui was riding caught on fire, causing third-degree burns to
60 percent of her body. The majority of people burned as badly
as Jacqui die.
Jacqui Saburido after being hit by a drunk driver. To date,
Jacqui has undergone more than 50 operations. Doctors have tried
to reconstruct Jacqui's eyelids, nose, mouth and neck. "But
really for me, if I can do a face transplant that will be
wonderful, but it depends on how many positive or how many
negative things," Jacqui says. For complete rehabilitation,
Jacqui would need a total face and scalp transplant. That would
mean a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs with side effects that
include a higher risk of cancer and diabetes. There's also the
danger that a new face would be rejected, requiring Jacqui to
undergo difficult skin-graft operations. To learn more about
Jacqui, go to her www.helpjacqui.com.
Surgeon Marshall Strome risked his medical reputation by giving
patient Tim Heidler a larynx transplant. Recalled Strome: "I
said to my wife: 'If this fails, people are going to say I was
nuts for the rest of my life.'" But Heidler, whose larynx was
crushed in a motorcycle accident, was determined to have Strome
do the operation. Heidler told Strome that — like facial
disfigurement — losing his voice was like losing his identity.
As he spoke through an electrical larynx, Heidler told Strome:
"No one will ever appreciate what it's like to talk like this."
Three days after the operation to replace his crushed larynx,
Tim Heidler (shown here talking through an electrical larynx),
spoke his first words in 20 years. He said: "Hi, my name's Tim
Heidler and the day today is January 21st."
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