curme Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 CLEVELAND -- In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world.They will smile, raise their eyebrows, close their eyes, open their mouths. Dr. Maria Siemionow will study their cheekbones, lips and noses. She will ask what they hope to gain and what they most fear. Then she will ask, "Are you afraid that you will look like another person?" Because whoever she chooses will endure the ultimate identity crisis. Siemionow wants to attempt a face transplant. This is no extreme TV makeover. It is a medical frontier being explored by a doctor who wants the public to understand what she is trying to do. It is this: to give people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies a chance at a new life. Today's best treatments still leave many of them with freakish, scar-tissue masks that don't look or move like natural skin. These people already have lost the sense of identity that is linked to the face; the transplant is merely "taking a skin envelope" and slipping their identity inside, Siemionow contends. Her supporters note her experience, careful planning, the team of experts assembled to help her, and the practice she has done on animals and dozens of cadavers to perfect the technique. But her critics say the operation is way too risky for something that is not a matter of life or death, as organ transplants are. They paint the frighteningly surreal image of a worst-case scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before. Such qualms recently scuttled face transplant plans in France and England. Ultimately, it comes to this: a hospital, doctor and patient willing to try it. The first two are now in place. The third is expected to be shortly. Red Nova If it can help burn patients, I say go for it! of course, it could be abused by crimminals, or just the rich who want a better face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathray Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 If it can help burn patients, I say go for it! of course, it could be abused by crimminals, or just the rich who want a better face. 586542804[/snapback] The potential for criminals ain't all that concerning since DNA can't be hidden. However, it's kinda freaky :s Anyone remember Face/Off :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strekship Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 This sounds like it would be a nive oppertunity for people eho have disfigured faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 This reminded me of the movie called "Face Off" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibby Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Great go for it. As long as a law stops people with fine to not abuse it like people who just love face lift and stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Behelit Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 I'm Castor Troy. No, I'm Castor Troy. NO, I'm Cator Troy!! They took my face......... off... they took my face.................... off :p :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Yeah...that movie was creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman2000 Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I liked that movie. Really Creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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