face transplant

     

A face transplant is a still-experimental proceure to replace a person's face.

Trivia about face transplant

  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Cleveland Clinic.) In 2008, on the victim of a shotgun blast, clinic doctors performed the USA's first of these operations; dental, psychological & bioethical teams, as well as plastic surgeons, were involved
  • In 2005 a French team performed the first of these procedures--some fear the recipient will look just like the donor