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    • The Worlds First Face Transplant

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      While doctors have been doing transplant for ages, giving some people new kidneys or heart, it’s quite hard to imagine how a face transplant would be possible.

      But in 2005, medical science made history when the first face transplant was done by French doctors. Banned in most countries, these doctors defied the norm and boundaries of surgery and proceeded to work on the face of a young woman named Isabelle Dinoire who had such a terrible accident, with her face receiving the blunt of the injuries.

      The documentary also highlights another face transplat case in Connie Culp who was apparenlty shot in the face by the man she called her husband.

      In due time, other face transplants also took place, following this two cases. The process is long and enduring, and its quite laborous for the doctors. What are the possible effects of this to the patients and their psychological being?

      This documentary follows the process to this historical feat and it also features both sides of the story. On one hand, the doctors who did the transplants were hailed for redefining the limitations of the surgery. But there are also others who question the ethics behind this, as well as the consequences.

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      Published on October 21, 2009 · Filed under: Science, Technology

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    • crystal

      I didn't know there was such operation! It's a great documentary, watch it!

    • DocLog R O C K S !!!

      Great documentary, but that woman is a LIAR about what happened to her. There is no way that she just tripped and fell, and then her own dog ate her face off! Its too bad that such an extrodinary gift couldnt have gone to someone more deserving than a probable animal abuser.

    • spacebunny

      They kept concealing her injury. It didn't look so bad as the lady whose husband shot her in the face with a rifle.

    • Iain Thomas

      Just a note about this comment: "but that woman is a LIAR…its too bad that such an extrodinary gift couldnt have gone to someone more deserving than a probable animal abuser."

      You are an idiot with a mean streak that runs very deep. Writing such a cruel comment based on a totally unsubstantiated hypothesis such as yours is proof enough of my assertion. She's got a hard enough life in front of her without people such as yourself making mean-spirited comments. A mature person would simply keep those thoughts to themselves as giving a voice to them literally adds insult to injury.

      I, unlike yourself, hope she has a long and happy life.

    • DocLog R O C K S !!!

      Well, Mr. Thomas, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but my, aren't we the proverbial pot calling the kettle black? My comment was simply MY opinion directed at the FILM I had just viewed. Name – calling and attacking another user of this site FOR such oppinions, I believe, would be a more accurate representation of thoughts that a "mature" person would find best to keep to themselves.

      As for my 'unsubstantiated hypothesis" – hardly. I have worked for over 20 years in animal rescue, been affiliated with several national organizations, have had extensive training in animal behavior, and dog obedience, have no less than 3 dogs that I am fostering at any one time, and even quit my job in 05 to spend 6 weeks immediately following hurricane Katrina to rescue starving and drowning pets in the heart of New Orleans. That aside, I dont believe anyone needs more than common sence to realize that the womans account of the circumstances that led to her injury is a LOAD OF CRAP! Come On – she just "passes out", or whatever, FALLS, and then her OWN DOG, a LABRADOR no less, UNPROVOKED, in any way, proceeds to EAT HER FACE OFF!!!! PLEASE! I have no "cruel intent". I feel 100% certain that she is either lying to some degree about how her injuries were obtained, or she had abused that dog in one way or another to cause such an extremely viscious attack.

      how you have interpreted my references to the woman as a "liar" or "probable animal abuser" as ill-wishes for her longevity or happiness is dumbfounding.

      And all of this is merely MY opinion – so chill out! -kendy

    • Iain Thomas

      Just a couple of replies to your last posting.
      You stated:
      "My comment was simply MY opinion directed at the FILM I had just viewed."

      No it wasn't, it was directed at the woman, NOT the film.

      As for your life's experience with animals, I'm happy for you. Truly I am as it has obviously given you great personal satisfaction. But in this case, nobody was given enough information to make a truly educated guess. I'll give you a for instance: let's assume the dog was abused. Is it not possible that the previous owner was the abuser and this poor lady was the one who rescued the dog from its awful life and the attack came about as a result of the abuse vetted out by the previous owner? I don't know. But then again, neither do you and to simply jump to a conclusion is a bit hasty. My point here is that you may be right. Then again, you may be wrong.

      You also stated:
      "how you have interpreted my references to the woman as a "liar" or "probable animal abuser" as ill-wishes for her longevity or happiness is dumbfounding."

      You're right. I took your tone and extrapolated those feelings from it. For that, I apologize. You did not in fact say that.

      Thanks for the back and forth, it was fun.

    • DocLog R O C K S !!!

      And thank you, as well, Mr. Thomas for your reply. I appreciate, and can agree with your point much more this second time around.

    • tc

      Its amazing how our face is so important to define what we are to others and ourselves.
      That small fraction of our body is simply just so much more defining than any other part of our body, that in every random thing our brain tries to see/build a face before anything else.
      Really, the thought of looking in the mirror and seeing a different face than your own looking back (even if disfigured), and knowing that you'll have to accept it as yourself is just upseting.
      I really think the real rejection would start in the brain, as it would have to really struggle to accept that new face as it's identity.

    • Henrik

      Fascinating! Creds to the surgeons.

      And DocLog, your earlier comment lacked a lot of common sense. Your life-story doesn't imply that you know that the woman is lying about the circumstances. You assumed it because you assume that dogs may never attack someone unprovoked. If you work with animals, you know that isn't true. I don't care about the circumstances behind her injury. I'm fascinated about the operation which is the actual topic of this film. I bet you give the animals more value than the drowning people after Katrina. But that's also only an assumption.

    • Imperien

      "I bet you give the animals more value than the drowning people after Katrina."

      You say that as if it were a bad thing…

    • (just a) F R O G on the LOG

      Hi Henrik – You….are an ass.

      "I bet you give the animals more value than the drowning people after Katrina."

      – how moronic

      formerly DocLog R O C K S

     
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