Tuesday, September 11, 2018

A man without a face smiled for the first time

 A man without a face smiled for the first time  Doctors Hospital Brigham (Brigham) and Women's Hospital (Women's Hospital) in the US city of Boston can finally celebrate: their infamous patient Dallas Vince passed 10 months ago through a unique operation on the full face transplant, he has gained the ability to smile.

This fact means that surgeons brilliantly coped with its task. They were able to skillfully connect the muscles, ligaments and nerves of the face of the donor with the flesh of Dallas that the body was not torn, his face stuck. The risk of rejection in such cases is always just huge, with face transplant   (and around the world have implemented it at 20), he observed much more frequently than in the transplantation of kidney or heart.

Doctors even enthusiastically report that Dallas Vince   I learned to articulate sounds with his lips - his pronunciation was much better.

"A new face has completely changed my life: I'm can not just smile - now all my emotions spontaneously and my will reflect on my face, like all normal people," - says the patient, which not so long ago called the man without a face .

 A man without a face smiled for the first time

so Dallas Vince was before the accident

According to Vince, each new feature facial muscles gives him great joy - for example, it can now be fine to drink from a glass or cup with the help of the lips, he recovered his sense of smell. No hope, alas, is not only the restoration of doctors believe that it is absolutely impossible.

Recall that the "man without a face" Dallas Vince began in 2008. There was an accident: while on the platform telescopic hoist Vince accidentally touched a high-voltage wire head, and though survived, forever lost his sight and face.

"He was all burned. There was no eye or nose, even teeth were not. He's just missing his face. None of my colleagues, this never-before-seen ", - said Jeffrey Jinisi, a plastic surgeon in Boston clinic.

 A man without a face smiled for the first time

so - to facial transplant

Dallas took dozens of physical and psychological tests before doctors confirmed him as a candidate for surgery and has become one of the three US citizens who fully transplanted face.



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