Doctors in Paris, France, working under Dr Laurent Lantieri, have completed two full face transplants, the first to be done. Lantieri has carried out three partial face transplants successfully. The BBC interviewed Professor Peter Butler, who expects to do a similar transplant next year. Popular concerns about the changed face are to some extent ungrounded, he says, because what “you get is a hybrid, something between the donor and the recipient. What you get is more like the recipient than the donor.”

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.