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World Readies For First-Ever Face Transplant
Doctor Talking With Possible Patients About Idea

POSTED: 4:17 pm EDT September 17, 2005
UPDATED: 4:20 pm EDT September 17, 2005

CLEVELAND -- Medical science is just about ready for the world's first face transplant.

A Cleveland clinic doctor is going to talk with 12 possible patients over the next few weeks about the radical idea.

Dr. Maria Siemionow's goal is 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.

Those people have lost the sense of identity that is linked to the face, Siemionow said, adding that the transplant is merely slipping their identity inside a skin envelope.

Her supporters say she is is well prepared. Her critics say the operation's way too risky for an issue that's not life-or-death.

The new face would come from a cadaver.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I would think it would be freaky for the family of the dead person whose face is being used for this to know that someday they could be walking down the street and have someone walk by with their loved ones face surgically attached to them<O:p</O:p
 
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This operation is down-right scary. You could wake up from surgery and have this staring at you in the mirror!:

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