Remember the 1997 John Woo film :: Face/Off where there was an exchange of faces between John Travolta and Nicholas Cage? In this film the then 'absurd premise'--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery-- is about to become reality. Face transplant was in the news about a year ago when plastic surgeon, Peter Butler said surgical techniques would allow the procedure to take place soon. Butler had then call for debates regarding the ethical issues associated with such a procedure. Present techniques of skin grafting for face reconstruction do not allow movement or sensitivity, creating a mask-like effect, Face transplants which would involve muscle and nerves as well as skin, would allow animation. The transplanted face can convey expressions and feelings, particularly the lips, eyes and cheeks. Obviously the transplant face would have to come from a cadaveric donor and not like in the film. Patients whose faces have been seriously disfigured by cancer, burns or accidents could be helped by such transplants but they are believed not to be in great numbers. Apart from Butler's team which is based in London's Royal Free Hospital, there is another team working on face transplant, and in the race to be the first, the American team is led by John Barker, director of Plastic Surgery, Louisville University, Kentucky. What can the face transplant recipient expect :: a new face which will work better than the old and capable of animation and expressions of emotion to varying degrees. Surgeons think after surgery, the recipient will look different from the donor as their facial bone structures are different. So if Sophia L agrees to donate her face to you when she goes to the sweet bye and bye, you would still be unlikely to look like her after a face transplant!
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Face transplant was in the news about a year ago when plastic surgeon, Peter Butler said surgical techniques would allow the procedure to take place soon. Butler had then call for debates regarding the ethical issues associated with such a procedure. 
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