Originally Posted by Salu

http://212.58.226.30/1/hi/health/3259773.stm

Surgeons say that they are now ready to start trials of facial transplants...

They infer that that would only be available for facial disfigurment and not cosmesis but as the past has shown, once you start going down a shaky moral road then it's hard to stop. As you are going so slowly that you don't always realise just how far you have travelled. By the time you have....things will never be the same again.

Think of a world where you can buy a new facial identity on the black market from unscrupulous plastic surgeons....Osama Bin Laden now looks like Duncan from blue....scary

I am however behind medical advancement for facial disfigurement. It's a tough one folks....

Originally Posted by Xaccers

As with all transpants patients suffer from cellular rejection where their immune system sees the new part as foreign and starts destroying it.
To combat this, patients have to take strong immune supressants, so they are more prone to illnesses, and they are not 100% effective so the new part is eventually killed off. Ever seen someone with a hand transplant? It's not a pretty sight!
So to think that someone with a healthy face would choose to undergo this operation when forms of plastic surgeory are available isn't likely.