Face Transplant

I found this article on Yahoo News. This article is about the first full face transplant, or so it claims. A Spanish hospital performed this surgery on a man who had lost his face in an accident 5 years prior.

This is incredible! Although their was a a partial face transplant in 2005, this one is said to be a full facial transplant. IN which included nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, and teeth.

What a feat. This will most definitely bring hope for those who have none due to their disabilities or difigurments; so they can go on and live a normal or more normal life again.

The patient seemed to be satisfied with his new face, from what the article stated, but it does raise in my mind what will be the deciding factors of which donor to use? Do the patients have a say so? In the future, will we be able to shop for for faces or others parts? Most likely not. There are already such high rules and regulations on transplants that we might still have a ways to go..... Interesting though.