1 / 4

Face Transplants

Face Transplants. By: Cassie Borden and Lia Bertolini. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&view=detail&id=A0CA81BE45F09BE5AF9E6B04122A03312B65C335&first=0&qpvt=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&FORM=IDFRIR. What’s the story? .

nibaw
Download Presentation

Face Transplants

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Face Transplants By: Cassie Borden and LiaBertolini

  2. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&view=detail&id=A0CA81BE45F09BE5AF9E6B04122A03312B65C335&first=0&qpvt=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&FORM=IDFRIRhttp://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&view=detail&id=A0CA81BE45F09BE5AF9E6B04122A03312B65C335&first=0&qpvt=chimp+attack+victim+pictures+new+face&FORM=IDFRIR What’s the story? • Charla Nash was attacked by a friend’s pet chimpanzee and was left without eyes, a nose, or lips. • She now has a nose and lips and is able to do some simple things quite well. • Charla can now feel her mouth and chin and she is beginning to be able to smile again. • Charla also received new hands but when she caught pneumonia they had to be removed. • She is improving daily. WWW.TODAY.MSNBC.MSN.COM/ID/44096766/NS/TODAY-TODAY_HEALTH/T/CHIMP-ATTACK-VICTIM-REVEALS-HER-NEW-FACE/

  3. What is a face transplant • A medical procedure when facial materials from a deceased person is transplanted to someone else. • Some faces can be reattached after being taken off, It is called a face replant. • The visibility of the face is one of the things that makes face transplants the most appealing to surgeons. • Face transplants give people a more normal expression and help them be more normal in their everyday lives. • Skin grafts are an alternative to face transplants when accidents aren't as severe. www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-face-transplant.htm

  4. Who has had face transplants? • Not very many people have had face transplants. Face replants are a little more popular but is still not very common. • Face transplants and replants are becoming more popular as time goes on and technology becomes better and better.

More Related