The decade that changed medicine (Independent)
November 30th, 2009
The ultimate makeover: face transplants. When Isabelle Dinoire underwent the world’s first face transplant in November 2005, a surgical Rubicon was crossed. Until then, surgeons had been unsure whether the human immune system would reject a new face (skin provokes one of the strongest immune responses), and whether the human psyche was capable of accepting it.
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