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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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.