The first near-total face transplant patient in the United States was a woman

The first near-total face transplant patient in the United States was a woman. In the 22 hour surgery, 80 percent of the woman's face was transplanted. The procedure was done by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic. The woman was said could not taste or smell and had problem speaking was missing her right eye and upper jaw. After the surgery and with the physical therapy, the woman patient could smell and blink.

Initially full facial transplant could only be considered to patients who are the most disfigured and had exhausted all existing procedures. The patient must be very clear about the risks involved. There is always a possibility that the recipient's body will reject the graft, and the patient may has to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her or his life to prevent rejection of the donated tissues.

Somehow there were mixed reaction about this facial transplants. Peter A Clark, the director of the Institute of Catholic Bioethics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia said the transplant introduces unnecessary risks for a procedure that is not a matter of life and death.
Other opinion was from Bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan, chairman of the University of Pennsylvania's Medical Ethics Department, saying people who are severely disfigured spend most of the time at home and have a high suicide rate. At this point facial transplant could be considered.

The patient reacted positively after the surgery. Although her vision still limited after the surgery, she was happy when she could feel she has a full face.
The woman, which her name was withheld at her request, had given the indication to Dr. Chad Gordon, a fellow at the clinic's department of plastic surgery, that she was comfortable. She also has been speaking to the doctors very slightly. The woman will have to re-educate her facial motion and will require three to six months of nerve regeneration, according to Dr. Maria Siemionow, the head of plastic surgery research at the Cleveland, Ohio, hospital.

A Not So Fantastic Plastic Surgery Story

Cooking oil - A new ingredient for your very own home made plastic surgery procedure.
This was a true story about a 48 year old woman from Korea, named Hang Mioku. She was highly addicted to plastic surgery. Her addiction started after the first surgery, she was 28 then.

Gorgeous look of Hang after her first plastic surgery

Her obsession to plastic surgery was too strong as if nothing could stop her.
She went to Japan, there she received more surgical procedure, mostly on her face, which in the end became disfigured. The surgeon she was visiting refused to perform any more surgery, that caused her to return home in Korea.

Hang's face was beyond recognizable, even by her own family. Back in Korea, she seek for any surgeon who would perform more plastic surgery on her until she found a local surgeon who had agreed to fix her addiction. The surgeon even provided Hang with the syringe and silicone supply to be taken home, which she could do the injection herself.

No one knows what had got into her mind that made she injected cooking oil under the skin on her face when she ran out of her silicone supply. Her face grew into bigger size and became worse.

Obsesses with the result of her first plastic surgery, she determined to have more, which eventually caused a disfigured face

Hang's ordeal was featured on TV and money was donated by many concerned viewers for her to get another surgery to reverse the damage.

After the procedure Hang's face has reduced in size, but still disfigured, scarred and miserable. Now the only thing that she wished is her original face, the one before her first plastic surgery.

If she had not perform more plastic surgery, she would not be in this state

Many People Are Getting Plastic Surgery For The Wrong Reasons

Many people do not carefully make justification before for opting plastic surgery. A wrong reason to get a plastic surgery is because you want to look like Angelina Jolie.
Bad economic time such as now may also give pressure to some individual into getting a plastic surgery as an effort to survive in a competitive employment environment.

In America, a well known plastic surgeons, Dr. Goesel Anson told there was an increase number of people coming to enhance their looks, hoping to stay in their job.

Using the plastic surgery to fix personal problem too becoming common. There are people who are having problem in relationship thought of plastic surgery as a quick solution to their problem. The thought of looking more good looking can make them more likable and success in the relationship.

Some people just can't get enough with what they have. That's a human nature. Those with the pretty face want to get prettier, those with the S size some part of the body will desire to have the L size, etc. Thus they opt to the plastic surgery in fulfilling their desire.

There are group of people that just want to fit in the circle. If the majority got a plastic surgery, she or he will think of it too. Anyone do have right for a plastic surgery if they want to, not because others have it too.

Getting a plastic surgery for a younger look just to bit the old age is another common circumstances. The surgical procedure can only make a person look younger, but not their real self. If a person wants to bring out their inner confidence by being more attractive, then they are getting plastic surgery for the right reasons.