Blog #10

Cleveland Clinic Performs First Face Transplant in the United States

By: Rob Stein

Cleveland performs the first face transplant in the U.S..... I didn't know that it was possible to have a face transplant at all. The names of the donor and the patient were not reveled but the donor was deceased in the past two weeks and was a female. 80% of the face was transplanted. That is the most that has been transplanted compared to France and China. Many people question the ethics of face transplants, they seem to be unethical even if there purpose to have a higher quality of life. The 3 other face transplants were all in cases of people who have had major disfiguration to their faces. The recovery process is long and hard so many doctors don't believe in the procedure. I am not sure where I sit with if you should or shouldn't be able to have a face transplants. In some conditions like disfiguration but i definatly think that any other reasons that are not extreme are not alright.