[ARCHIVED THREAD] - French perform first ever...

Posted: 11/30/2005 3:44:18 PM EDT

...face transplant !Link

Woman has first face transplant

The operation lasted several hours
Surgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant, it has been reported.

The woman had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a dog.

In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face.

Doctors stress the woman will not look like her donor, but nor will she look like she did before the attack - instead she will have a "hybrid" face.

Now the French can literally be "two faced"

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