Face off! First ever human face transplant - United Bimmer Community

**komodo** · 09-22-2005, 12:59 PM

Anyone ever seen the Cage/Travolta movie Face Off?

Remind you of it?

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World Readies For First-Ever Face Transplant
Doctor Talking With Possible Patients About Idea

POSTED: 4:17 pm EDT September 17, 2005
UPDATED: 4:20 pm EDT September 17, 2005

CLEVELAND -- Medical science is just about ready for the world's first face transplant.

A Cleveland clinic doctor is going to talk with 12 possible patients over the next few weeks about the radical idea.

Dr. Maria Siemionow's goal is to give people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies a chance at a new life.

Today's best treatments still leave many of them with freakish, scar-tissue masks that don't look or move like natural skin.

Those people have lost the sense of identity that is linked to the face, Siemionow said, adding that the transplant is merely slipping their identity inside a skin envelope.

Her supporters say she is is well prepared. Her critics say the operation's way too risky for an issue that's not life-or-death.

The new face would come from a cadaver.

**dinan540** · 09-22-2005, 01:03 PM

The scary part is that for criminals, this would be a ticket to hide. Can't change finger prints yet though

**gotKRAUT** · 09-22-2005, 01:04 PM

omg i heard about this on the greatest radio show ever http://robarnieanddawn.com now have audio files on their website...freakin scary!!!!!

**projal147** · 09-22-2005, 01:06 PM

kinda scary as an initial thought... but it would be an amazing feat to do it.

**donald1476** · 09-22-2005, 01:07 PM

I can't really imagine walking around with a new face, haha.

witeshark · 09-22-2005, 01:11 PM

That is getting a bit on the absurd side IMO

**gotKRAUT** · 09-22-2005, 01:28 PM

brings a whole new meaning to face value...or saving face : drumb sound follwed by symbel :

nick_318is · 09-22-2005, 02:39 PM

Definitly Reminisent(sp?) of Face off, once again another example of some of the crazy stuff that we will be able to do with technology. But could you imagine the shock that you would have, you wake up with a completly different face, that would Freak me out.

**94bmw325i** · 09-22-2005, 02:41 PM

yeah would be very different

**Cellardoor** · 09-22-2005, 05:16 PM

what about the thought of walking down the street one day and seeing your dead best friend walking twords u. This could deffinately have some rediculouse social ramifications!

-Hutch-

**Chris** · 09-23-2005, 04:51 AM

this is an escaped felons dream come true.

**komodo** · 09-23-2005, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Cellardoor

what about the thought of walking down the street one day and seeing your dead best friend walking twords u. This could deffinately have some rediculouse social ramifications!

-Hutch-

Whoa, that... would be freaky.

**Rooz** · 09-23-2005, 06:45 PM

face off was a kick ass movie, lol