By Sara G. Miller | Live Science
A 41-year-old man who suffered extensive facial burns in 2001 while working as a volunteer firefighter now has a new face. The man recently underwent the most extensive facial transplant done to date, said the doctors who treated him.
Surgeons at New York University Langone Medical Center operated for 26 hours in August 2015. The team included over 100 individuals, said Dr. Robert Grossman, the dean and CEO of the medical center, speaking at press conference today (Nov. 16).
This surgery is historic, said Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, a plastic surgeon at the center, who led the operation. [The 9 Most Interesting Transplants]
“The amount of tissue that was transplanted [in this surgery] had not been transplanted before,” Rodriguez said. He noted that he had only performed one facial transplant procedure prior to this surgery (that earlier operation was the first to successfully transplant bone and teeth).
Prior to this surgery, Rodriguez told the patient, Patrick Hardison, that the surgery had a 50/50 chance of success, Rodriguez said.
After his accident, Hardison had no normal tissue in his face, scalp, eyelids, nose or lips, Rodriguez said. Hardison had also lost his ears, the doctor said. Hardison wore a baseball cap, sunglasses and prosthetic ears to conceal his appearance, and because of significant scarring on his face, he experienced enormous pain when making facial expressions and chewing.
The surgeons planned out the extensive surgery down to the minute, Rodriguez said.
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Amazing
God bless him
Wow. God bless ??
Incredible !
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Awesome transformation. This is one of the gifts modern medicine offers, and to some extent helps to balance the scrambled issues the AMA requires for the day to day practice of medicine.
Now this can be called human marvel …this is what which has no bad effects only good effects…this kind of surgery…transplants hold great promise for future…if the body doesnt reject its great…if stem cells also creates some body parts to transplant then it wud be great
God Bless!!!
I admire his will to survive and not be a victim of circumstance.
God bless him !!!
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Thank goodness we now have the medical know how to help people who need it.
That is fantastic surgery for this guy to have been able to get
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Wow! He looks amazing! God bless!
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I think it is wonderful. Go well good man
Amazing technology !
You know, what bothers me is that we (Society) do not see this man as beautiful or normal until he looks “normal”, like the rest of us…sad really!
Unbelievable!
God Bless All….
Absolutely incredible.
Incredible
Amazing repair
Amazing. Wonderful story. Amazing medical team have given new hope to this man. And he looks fantastic.
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Amazing?
Truly amazing! God is good!!!
Poor man, it fabulous !
Makes me think Bruce Jenner had that done
Great work, very impressive!
God bless you more:)
Wow hope he is happy
God bless