Beyond Recognition: The Incredible Story of a Face Transplant

A disfigured woman is given a face transplant, which currently remains an experimental procedure:

“In the US, there are five institutions — Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, UCLA, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University — that are now either performing face transplants or actively recruiting their first patient. And for the surgeons leading these charges, the process has long been an all-consuming one. ‘If you only knew how much work goes into every single one of these,’ says Dr. Kodi Azari, chief of reconstructive transplantation at UCLA. ‘You can’t even imagine.'”

Source: The Verge
Published: Jun 4, 2013
Length: 16 minutes (4,035 words)