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Raining_again
19-09-2005, 03:51 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4259538.stm

What do you guys think?
Bowser57
19-09-2005, 03:56 PM
It could be a bit strange seeing the face of someone you know is dead attatched to someone who happens to be out doing a bit of shopping.
Raining_again
19-09-2005, 03:58 PM
I think it says that the face more or less takes on the shape of the persons bone structure

they'd also have to take rejection drugs for their whole life....u can only imagine the damge that would do to your body :eer:
Fierce_LiNk
19-09-2005, 03:58 PM
It could be a bit strange seeing the face of someone you know is dead attatched to someone who happens to be out doing a bit of shopping.

That would really affect someone psychologically. I guess it's really no different than having a new liver or kidney donated by someone else. But, i dunno. There are too many issues with this. :hmm:
Blackfox
19-09-2005, 04:03 PM
From a physcological perspective, it might totally freak the patients and their familyout. Afterall, they would have a totally different face. However, if they had thei face mangled up in a car accident say, perhaps they would wnt any new face possible. It wont exactly replicate the donor's face due to the different skeletal and muscular scructures..

I think the procedure would work, its been tested. It'll be interesting seeing how this ends up..
Bluejay
19-09-2005, 04:04 PM
Eww, I don't like the sound of that. Imagine walking around with dead skin on your face even if the skin is not disintingrating. (sp) Wouldn't it go manky after a while. No, don't like the sound of that at all.
Blackfox
19-09-2005, 04:09 PM
Eww, I don't like the sound of that. Imagine walking around with dead skin on your face even if the skin is not disintingrating. (sp) Wouldn't it go manky after a while. No, don't like the sound of that at all.

Its living.

Otherwise what would be the point in the prodedure at all?
Tyson
19-09-2005, 04:15 PM
Eww, I don't like the sound of that. Imagine walking around with dead skin on your face even if the skin is not disintingrating. (sp) Wouldn't it go manky after a while. No, don't like the sound of that at all.
Wouldn't they kind of make it become part of their body, so it gets all there blood etc. Or something along the lines.

Still, it sounds kind of wierd.
GoonFace
19-09-2005, 04:17 PM
Wow. I never thought something like this would ever happen. I mean, it somebody elses face. When you look in the mirror you would see a different person.
Shmotz
19-09-2005, 04:18 PM
All skin that is visible on your body is dead anyway.
Blackfox
19-09-2005, 04:22 PM
All skin that is visible on your body is dead anyway.....

Smart arse ;)
mario114
19-09-2005, 04:27 PM
I wouldn't mind having a donor card (i don't have one though, to much hasle) but i wouldn't want people to touch my face :o
Supergrunch
19-09-2005, 04:30 PM
All skin that is visible on your body is dead anyway.
Yeah, but the stuff underneath isn't, and that's what would rot if the body rejected it.
dukkadukka
19-09-2005, 05:29 PM
i suppose the real question is, who's face would you want? shotgun on princess diana
!
Surrealist
19-09-2005, 05:30 PM
I'm pretty sure they'd make sure it wouldn't be rejected...

Still, sounds too weird pour moi.
Offerman
19-09-2005, 05:43 PM
Yeah, but the stuff underneath isn't, and that's what would rot if the body rejected it.

Yea - but thats where the skill lies, getting the right dose of drugs to prevent the body rejecting it. Thats where the skill lies during all transplant operations, like heart, kidneys and liver...etc. The body would try and reject it quickly - if it wasnt for the high amount of drugs the patient has to consume for a good deal of hes life - after the operation.
Dieter
19-09-2005, 05:47 PM
It sounds pretty dodgy at the moment, best wait for a few months/years till it's perfected. It doesn't sound very attractive, but then again, my face isn't disfigured....unnaturally that is :P
elniro
19-09-2005, 05:49 PM
hmm faceoff could become a reality lol.
I dont like idea that deadly criminals and such could be able to change their face wenever they wanted to remain uncaptured
Surrealist
19-09-2005, 05:51 PM
Indeed, elniro, that's very true, could become a major issue...
dD_Daz
19-09-2005, 05:54 PM
:shock: Face transplants... whatever next!
Surrealist
19-09-2005, 05:57 PM
:shock: Face transplants... whatever next!

Look downstairs...





:eek:
link64uk
19-09-2005, 06:00 PM
that sounds crazy. like it says in the article many questions must be answered before they go ahead with it. psychologically it would screw you up but then again if you have a severly disfigured face u wud be happy to have a face that isn't disfigured.
JonSt
19-09-2005, 06:03 PM
Not sure bout this, has both good and bad points.
Bowser57
19-09-2005, 06:06 PM
shotgun on princess diana
!

I'm sure the tunnel wall and car left quite enough of an impression without you making it even worse.
bob
19-09-2005, 10:26 PM
I'm sure the tunnel wall and car left quite enough of an impression without you making it even worse.

The eight years rotting underground won't have done much good either.
Fierce_LiNk
19-09-2005, 10:36 PM
Look downstairs...





:eek:

Haha. Still, we gotta wait a bit longer for the world's first "arse" transplant. :wink:
RATM_4_EVA
19-09-2005, 10:52 PM
Its living.

Otherwise what would be the point in the prodedure at all?

that things alive *cringe*
RATM_4_EVA
19-09-2005, 10:54 PM
Indeed, elniro, that's very true, could become a major issue...

there is DNA ID :)
Zero Seven
27-11-2005, 02:48 AM
Just imagine if your brother died (touch wood that doesnt happen) and his face was used as a transplant for another person and later that year you where walking down town and the person with ur brothers face walks past you! thats freaky as fuck so it is!
Pit-Jr
27-11-2005, 02:55 AM
This was reported a while back in the US. The article you linked left out the fact that if the patient's body rejects the face, it will turn black and fall off. Lovely
Zero Seven
27-11-2005, 03:07 AM
This was reported a while back in the US. The article you linked left out the fact that if the patient's body rejects the face, it will turn black and fall off. Lovely

cracker, especially for a girl, at the cinema with ur new boyfriend, when they go to kiss in the cinema, his face falls off and she has nothing to kiss but a jellyfish and little blocks called teeth.

haw haw haw :shock:
jakeee
27-11-2005, 08:29 AM
I'd love to have Bruce Lee's face. Everybody would respect me. Unfortunately that isn't possible anymore because he died in 1973 :weep:
Strider
27-11-2005, 08:49 AM
Im not sure about this, wouldnt the skin colour be different and all that? I wouldnt like it done to me.
Raining_again
27-11-2005, 10:36 AM
Im not sure about this, wouldnt the skin colour be different and all that? I wouldnt like it done to me.

well wouldn't they try and match the skin tone as much as possible?

I could see it from the point of view that if you have really bad scarring on your skin you would be so much happier having a "normal" face that the bad things seem a lot less.
Haver
27-11-2005, 11:52 AM
Trauma Center has given me an entirely new perspective on medicine!

LET'S BEGIN THE OPERATION.
Raining_again
27-11-2005, 11:55 AM
Trauma Center has given me an entirely new perspective on medicine!

LET'S BEGIN THE OPERATION.

Is that where offerman has disappeared to suddenly?!

you've got his face havent you :heh:
EEVILMURRAY
27-11-2005, 12:05 PM
It could be a bit strange seeing the face of someone you know is dead attatched to someone who happens to be out doing a bit of shopping.

They should remix the faces. Half from one dude, half from another. Problem solved. Then use the two halves left over for the next lucky chap.
Strider
27-11-2005, 12:22 PM
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/9521/untitled1hfg1wi.th.jpg (http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1hfg1wi.jpg)

He comes to mind.