face transplant

Face transplants are in the news now that a woman mauled by a chimp underwent the procedure.

WebMD explains what a face transplant is and what happens before, during, and after surgery.

(MedPage Today) -- Face transplantation -- at least in the near term -- may not cost much more than the multiple conventional reconstructive surgeries that a complex case would need, according to the team that did the first U.S. face transplant.

Surgeons in Barcelona announced on Friday that they had performed the most extensive face transplant yet reported, including skin, muscles, and teeth.

WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) -- The success of last December's near-total face transplant in Cleveland should prompt consideration of this approach as first-line treatment for severe facial trauma, said the surgeons who performed the operation.

BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- Surgeons in Boston have performed the nation's second face transplant on a man who lost the middle of his face in a freak accident.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation at the Cleveland Clinic, hospital officials said Wednesday....

Four years of patient screening and more than 22 hours of surgery have given a disfigured woman a new image

CLEVELAND (MedPage Today) -- The first near-total face transplant in the U.S. has been performed here, Cleveland Clinic officials said today.