Jérôme Hamon and the world’s first facial retransplant
There have been fewer than 50 face transplants in the world since 2005, and only two people have undergone the...
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AboutFace: a project roundup for 2021
As we near the end of 2021, the AboutFace team has been reflecting on the year so far. It’s been...
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Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media
Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media A video showing a woman inside a spider monkey enclosure at...
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Why hasn’t it happened yet? Barriers to face transplantation in the UK
Why hasn’t it happened yet? Barriers to face transplantation in the UK There have been 48 face transplants around the...
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Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On
Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On By Fay Bound Alberti On 27 July 2019,...
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Lifesaving or Life-Enhancing? The First Emergency Face Transplant
In April 2013, a Polish stonemason, Grzegorz Galasiński, received the world's first 'emergency' face transplant after an industrial accident. The operation was performed within three weeks of injury, and was the first face transplant performed in Poland. For the first time, doctors described the surgery as life-saving, rather than life-enhancing. Consultant plastic and aesthetic surgeon Dan Saleh reflects on this surgery in our latest guest blog.
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Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look like after face and double hand transplant?
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love)— … Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look...
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From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate
From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate: Lessons from visible difference research on the importance of patient-focused psychological...
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When face transplants fail: Carmen Tarleton and the world’s second retransplant
Image credit: Len Rubenstein In 2007, Carmen Tarleton was attacked in bed by her ex-husband, who broke into the home...
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Future Faces – A Being Human Event
Future Faces is one of four events and activities that AboutFace is running for the Being Human Festival in 2020....