Face Transplants

Although I am not direclty involved in performing face transplants, I have been following the procedure's progress over the last several years.   Most recently, a group in Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston perfromed a full face transplant and the patient is now doing well and making good recovery. 

People that receive face transplants are those that have full facial burns or trauma which have left them severely disfigured.  They have to undergo a battery of medical and psychiatric tests to make sure they will be good candidates. The procedure itself involves a team of plastic surgeons who transplant the nerves, skin, and facial muscles of a donor onto the recipient.  The surgery takes many hours and involves the use of careful microsurgery.

Unfortunately in this particular case, the patient also lost his eyes from his injury which are not able to be transplanted. 

Read more in LA Times.

Beauty and Fashion Exhibit to Open in LA

This should be an interesting exhibit to check out.  It's the first of its kind--demonstrating beauty in all forms from modeling shoots to photos demonstrating lip and botox injections.  All of these subjects are examined in “Beauty Culture,” the first fashion- and beauty-themed exhibition to be held at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, the heartland of Hollywood goddesses and plastic surgery, which opens on May 21 and runs through Nov. 27.

Read more in NY Times.