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Face Transplant Update

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Update Successful Face Transplant

From AP, Cleveland, Yahoo News Canada reports

1st U.S. face transplant patient says she forgives man who shot her

In December 2008, Connie Culp had 80 % of her face replaced with facial skin, and bond, muscles and nerves from a woman who had dies. The operation, by a team of doctors, was carried out at Cleveland Clinic where Culp appeared for a news conference this week.

Culp came forward this week for a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors in December replaced 80 per cent of her face with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from a woman who had died.

“The woman who had the first face transplant in the United States says it was the smell of soap that made her realize her new face was working.”

Successful Face Transplant

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The Wall Street Journal reports an amazing success – a face transplant. This is not just news.  This is a person who can use our prayers.  So let’s say one for a full, happy outcome.

Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic performed the first near-total face transplant on a 46-year old woman. The 22-hour procedure will enable her to eat solid food, smell and breathe through her nose again, doctors say.