A few years ago, A Frenchwoman was mauled by her dog. Her face was severely damaged. French doctors, amidst much controversy, transplanted a new face onto the woman. The face donor was a brain-dead patient kept alive by machines. Many doctors decried this operation because it was untested, and the woman was supposed to have been at high risk for infection and death. She lived. She has a new face. Today, a study shows that face transplantation isn't as risky as it once thought.
Handsome and beautiful people need not worry. Roguish face-peddlers won't be skulking around your apartments, waiting to knock you out and steal your face, and you won't wake up face down in a bathtub full of ice without a face.
The new faces are not the faces of the donor. They aren't quite the faces of the donation acceptor either. They are a hybrid face. Some like to call them a combination countenance or a piecemeal pug. Those people aren't believed to be very tactful.
Most people won't ever need a face transplant, but we all know someone who should at least look into it. Yet, Plastic Surgery isn't all about breast augmentations and falsely-clefted chins. Much of it is about restoring wounded skin and appendages.
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FUN FACTS:
Another side effect of the face transplant has been the horrible puns used by medical writers. Here are some puns that I've found:
"Face-Off Over Transplants"
"Patient Faces Enormous Risks"
"Face it, Faceless, It Won't be Facile to Reface Your Effaced Face if Proper Facilities Don't Surface."
I wrote the last one, and it felt good.
