Face Transplants

Rebzie

I was woundering what people thought about the fact that they had the first face transplant. A women in france Isabelle Dinoire had a partial face transplant after he dog had mauled her face. She taken sleeping tablets to get to sleep and it's a rumoured suicide attempt alot a debate about it. They used the face of a brain dead patiant who had hung themself. Dinoire smokes even though her face is still healing and she's on antiimunants. I think it's great that we can do things like this but im not sure about the choice of person.

http://isabelle-dinoire-news.newslib.com/story/7066-5/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4491310.stm

and this the is second person ever to have a face transplant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4910372.stm

Egmond

Well, it's great for those people that lost their faces, so they can get back to 'normal' live.
But i'm afraid there will be a lot of rich americans that just want another face because they don't like their own one, or something. Doesn;t sound very healthy :S

Ghost Rider103

That gives me the shivers lol, that is just creepy. I mean it is good those people are ok and all but man, thats just creepy weird and scary in many different catagories Mad

Firefly54

Think of this then - we all look at a persn's face to "read" their character... so what happens when their face changes? Imagine looking in the mirror and seeing a stranger... and that strangers face will have been shaped, to some degree, by their personality and their life experiences. SO what happens? Does that person change their character to fit their face? Or does the new face change to fit their existing character?

Some of each, I imagine myself. If a person wasn't happy with their face, for some reason, then to receive a new one without the defects that they imagined the original had must surely make them a more confident person? Similarly would they not become less confident if they weren't happy with the image that they saw? When we dress up to go out, we feel confident. When we look scruffier that we'd like to, then we feel lose confidence. SO, to go a step further, if our new face looked evil to us, how might we change?

To some degree the underlying bone structure and flesh will prevent a transplanted face from looking the same on its recipient as it did on its original owner... but still, it must be a sacrey thing to look in the mirror and read a new character in a new face...

albusa

jum interesting, today precisely i was wondering that, because i was looking white chicks the movie, and there them change his faces, or in impossible mission, but is very interesting that is not more a dream or fiction

Rhysige

The skin is an organ. The face is part of that organ, they new owner wont look like the old owner and I look at this the same way I do all organ donation, its not like the original owner has a use for it anymore Very Happy

Thats also why ive got on my license that I am willing to donate everything because if im dead I would like to know I can help someone live, whether its bettering current life or giving life where they would have died.