Face transplant
Medical procedure to replace a person's face using donor tissue / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Face transplant?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones that support the face. The recipient of a face transplant will take life-long medications to suppress the immune system and fight off rejection.[1]
The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in 2005.[2] The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010.[3] Turkey,[4] France, the United States and Spain (in order of total number of successful face transplants performed) are considered the leading countries in the research into the procedure.[2]