What is your opinion about total face transplants?
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I think that face transplants are a wonderful breakthrough!  For far too long, people have had to live with horrible facial disfigurements and the stares that come with that because plastic surgery could only do so much.  Now, there is this wonderful procedure out there!  I'm so excited to see face transplants becoming a reality for so many people. :)\n\nEdited to add:  I'd like to comment that face transplants are NOT cosmetic surgery available to everyone.  You can't just get your face replaced with someone else's because you don't like yours.  Like an organ transplant, face transplants would be based on need -- not vanity.  We're talking about disfigured people or people with facial birth defects that can't be corrected via cosmetic surgery -- not people who just don't like their face.
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There's that face transplant in France, and there are the artificial ears in Italy that helped the son of one the American Olympic athletes. It's also worth remembering that penicillin came from an accidental discovery in Europe, and that Louis Pasteur did the pasteurization boogie there as well.\n\nPlease remember to capitalize the names of regions and countries in future posts, e.g. Europe not europe. Thank you.
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I think they have package programs where you can get 20 teeth implants for $15,000\n\n   But tooth transplants can have long term rejection.  That means that in like 10-15 years they may get inflamed & need to be replaced again.
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Whole eyes are not actually transplanted.  The most common form of eye transplant is just of the cornea (the clear front part of the eye).  The reason those transplants are more successful than kidney transplants is that the cornea is avascular (it doesn't have any blood vessels).  This makes it less likely that the body will reject the new tissue.
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Its a non-surgical face lift .So it IS  an alternative to plastic surgery .\nhttp://www.viserage.com/non_surgicalfacelift.html
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Go for it!  But let me tell you EXACTLY how the procedure will go down.  My husband had the surgery in 2000, and I sat in the waiting room and was able to watch the entire surgery on television live.  They take these clamps and pull his eye open, after he is giving a strong numbing agent in the eye.  Well, he cant feel the clamps. Then, the doctor cuts open his cornea just to the point that it hangs over.  He takes the exposed area and zaps the eyes with a laser. It took just a minute, and then he flips the cornea back into place, and taped my husband's eyes closed. Next, he did the other eye.  Well, he finished in less than five minutes. My husbands eyes were taped shut and these honeycomb looking things were placed over both eyes, along with those big huge glasses you see the elderly people wearing. And voila! That was it. He was given a sedative which helped him sleep when we got home.  He had to wear those honeycomb looking things overnight, but it didn't bother him because he was knocked out from the sedative. He also had plenty of eyedrops. Well, a week later he had a follow up appt. and his vision was incredible!!!!  I hope you decide to do it. And over the years, LASIK has become more and more affordable.  Here's to a speedy recovery.
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I had a large skin graft on the top of my foot. The injury to my foot was very painful...but, i don't think the skingraft was so bad. They took the graft from  my upper thigh...it (the donor site) was pretty itchy till it healed. My foot hurt so bad from the injury it is hard to say if the graft added to that pain. It would also depend on how thick the graft is because sometimes it has to be thicker. Mine was real thick cause the injury to my foot cut off the blood supply and the skin and tissue died and had to be removed. This was a long time ago...and maybe outcomes have improved...but i have a very large scar where they took the skin from and also on my foot.
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Hi, I have my ears back by plastic surgery about 20 years ago it brilliant and worth.  I feel so happy.  I do not believe it for beauty.
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I would thoroughly investigate this online. They offer reviews from many people that have had the procedure done~good and bad reviews.\n\nPersonally,I have only heard positive feedback on lasik surgery,but not enough people to draw a conclusion from. I think that the benefits far out-way the consequences of the 'what-ifs'.\n\ngood luck to you.
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The transplanting of a face.
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A common urban legend is that hospitals are waiting with open arms to remove excess skin for use on burn victims. While this isn't true, for those of you who would like to donate skin after surgery, please scroll to the bottom of this wonderful post for the address:\n\n"... And the most wonderful thing would be - if you had cosmetic surgery for the excess skin that it be donated for use by burn patients and others needing skin grafts."\n\nResponse:\n\n"Wouldn't it be wonderful if this were true? \n\nAs a burn survivor with 108 skin grafts, maybe I can shed some light on this.\n\nWhen your skin is damaged badly enough to require grafting, the only skin that can permanently replace it is your own skin (or that of an identical twin). This type of graft is called an autograft, and can be accomplished in two ways. One, they remove shallow slices of skin from unburned areas of your body (donor sites) and literally move it to areas that need to be grafted. The burned skin is removed, and the donor skin is stapled or stitched into place, where it usually successfully re-attaches and grows. The donor sites eventually regenerate, t scar to some degree. Graft sites, as would be expected, also scar. The other way is to grow skin cells in a laboratory, often in conjunction with "artificial skin" products such as Integra. This is usually a last resort when the patient just doesn't have enough undamaged potential donor sites accomplish the job. The lab-grown skin is transplanted much like donor skin.\n\nBurn patients are often critically ill, sometimes more so than anyone not having seen it firsthand can begin to imagine. \n\nA fresh donor site becomes the equivalent of a second-degree burn after the skin is removed, and between burned areas, grafted areas, and fresh donor sites, there is a limit to the number of donor sites that surgeons can use at any given time. Doctors need to buy time for some patients while donor sites recover or new skin can be grown. Temporary skin coverings, either from human cadaver skin (allografts) or pigskin (xenografts) can be used to help keep the patient alive. These temporary skin coverings are rejected by the body after a few days, die off, and need to be replaced either with a permanent autograft or another temporary allograft/xenograft.\n\nIt is possible to "harvest" skin from live donors. But the equipment needed to do this is horrendously expensive,.. \n\nand very, very few burn centers have it. It's just not a cost effective procedure, considering the procedure results in an allograft that is going to die off in a matter of days and will need to be replaced. In addition, the live skin that might be harvested needs to fit many criteria. For starters, it has to be very healthy, of sufficient size and shape, and cannot be scarred or stretched out. It also needs to be screened for communicable diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, and the like. Then the harvested skin needs to be kept alive until it is used as a temporary skin graft. Very few surgical procedures result in this kind of harvestable skin; certainly tummy tucks or removal of saggy underarm skin are not among them. Most burn centers prefer to allocate precious resources to things that are going to provide the best possible care for critically ill patients.\n\nIf anyone truly wishes to help burn patients, please consider post-mortem skin donations, much like you might consider donation of other organs. \n\nIf you have "live" skin you wish to donate, please contact::\n\nThe American Burn Association\n\n650 N. Michigan Avenue\n\nSuite 1530\n\nChicago, IL 60611\n\nPhone 800-548-2876\n\nFax 312-642-9150\n\nprior to any contemplated surgeries so the American Burn Association can direct you to medical facilities that have the proper resources. The American Burn Association can also provide you with the information you would need regarding post-mortem skin donations.\n\nI don't know of any med
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I've been wearing glasses for about seven years now, I'm 18, and honestly I don't give a rats ass about what people think. I think that glasses are becoming in style now and you shouldn't be ashamed of wearing them if you need them. Though, not that I care about what others think, I'm trying to heal my eyesight the natural way, as laser eye surgery is not always a fool proof solution and is so expensive. I am going to use the Bates method to try and heal my eyesight, as I don't like relying on glasses to see, I want to be able to see clearly using my own eyes again. I want to wear sunglasses. I don't want to be restricted to not playing certain sports. For these personal reasons, I don't like wearing glasses, as they are crutches. I recommend you watch a DVD called "Yoga For Your Eyes" by Meir Schneider if you are interested in healing your eyes. Schneider was born legally blind and healed his eyes and is now able to legally drive without glasses. Good luck :)
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Several guys I know have used hair transplant surgery.\n\nThe results are actually unnoticeable.\n\nThey have more hair where they want it...but they were actually better looking with a receding hairline.\n\nI think it is a waste of money.
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If the model-type was good at fellatio, I'd marry her and buy her a lifetime supply of breath savers, listerine, and eclipse "cinammon inferno" gum. And I'd see if I could get a dentist to do something about it. I think it would still cost less in the long run than plastic surgery for the fugly one.
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1.) Some patients experience mild pain and discomfort directly following the surgery.  However, this is not likely.  Since the scalp is numbed for the procedure, the majority of patients do not complain of any pain.  \n\n2.) It is possible that following the surgery, you will experience a temporary thinning of your pre-existing hair.  This side effect does not occur in all patients, and if it does happen, hair will re-grow, along with the newly transplanted hair.\n\n3.) Numbness of the scalp is likely to occur following the surgery but generally resolveds in several months.  \n\n4.) There are several side effects of hair transplantation that are very rare and only occur in a small percentage of patients.  Although these side effects are rare, they are serious.  They include bleeding, scarring, cysts, and infection.  The number of cases where this occurs approaches zero percent in my experience.  If you do experience these side effects following your hair transplantation, call your doctor immediately.  \n\n5.) After the surgery, you will see small scabs form over the grafts on your scalp.  These scabs will take about one week to disappear.
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My father had lasik surgery on both of his eyes (Cleveland clinic) and since then he has had perfect vision, would i recommend it?  Due to the fact that it is no longer that new of a technique it isn't as expensive as it used to be when lasik first came out.  If you have the money...my advice is to go for it!  ...It does not ruin the kidneys...if you want some factual advice talk to your Doctor or look it up on the Internet.
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YES.Since the brain is essentially a storage facility for ones experiences through the five senses and able to triage information (much like an emergency room nurse determines which cases are most urgent and which ones can wait), a transplant without the memories coming along for the ride would make very little sense. Emotions are an integral part of our memory too.  I can't\n imagine that being lost in the transfer.  What do you think the fate of the brain removed will be?  The donor will be the recipient as well.  Dig it.