The amazing progress of facial surgery

After ten years of operations unsatisfactory, American Mitch Hunter regains its appearance through a full face transplant.

 Strangers were looking down the street and children were screaming 'what is the monster!' and ran away, but Mitch Hunter has just undergone a face transplant that promises to change your life.
The truth is that when knocked on his door, just outside Indianapolis (North America), did not know what to expect.
He had seen pictures of him as a young soldier and photos of him after 10 years of plastic surgery operations, but now he was about to meet him, four months after having undergone one of the first full face transplant in the world.
Clayton opened the door, her 18 month old son in her arms and I was surprised.
Mitch is no longer the handsome young man before, but the transformation of his face in the last six months is amazing. Looking for Mitch and his baby even could see the family resemblance.
Mitch was 20 when a car he was riding as a passenger crashed into a pole containing a power of 10,000 volts.
Tried to rescue the other passenger, but in doing so, received the shock of the cable on his leg and face. He lost his leg and most of his face burned.
In the next 10 years, surgeons tried to reconstruct his face, but the results were not entirely satisfactory.
It was the birth of their son Clayton that made Mitch finally decided to undergo a full facial transplant, the third that was made in the United States.
'I had to see children run and hide behind their mothers because they were afraid of me, "he explains. 'Then Clayton was born and did not want to see more kids scared of me.'
Financing
Mitch operation was the result of an unusual joint funding between the Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston and U.S. armed forces
With a significant number of soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with severe damage to the face and body, the Pentagon has decided to fund research to fix.
Is also funding and hands face transplants.
Finding a donor is surprisingly not that hard. Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who has made three complete operations and prepares to face five others, said he preferred that the donor is young and the same sex.
The computer reconstruction shows that transplantation of a female face to a man would give a good result, but has not yet been attempted.
Transplanted the entire thickness of the face, but what really determines the posterior aspect of the patient is determined by the bone structure of her face.
The operation went smoothly Mitch. A team of surgeons removed his old face before the new was implanted in the operating room by Dr. Pomahac.
The surgeons attached the arteries of the body of Mitch to the new face and hit three nerves. Finally, sew the new face, nose, lips and muscles.
The entire operation lasted 14 hours.
Katrina, Mitch's partner is an old friend from school, their relationship began several years ago, long before the transplant.
She says she soon got used to the face Mitch damaged and so it was accepted, though he realized that Mitch was unhappy and avoided leaving the house.
What was your reaction after the transplant? "I think it's crazy. The fact that medicine has come so far, and what they are capable of. It's simply amazing '.
When asked if he was odd kiss on the lips of a dead man, she replied: 'Never before had kissed her lips.'
Mitch says he is regaining feeling in the skin of your face and you can now do things like raise my eyebrows, pursing your lips and smile. Expected that these improvements continue.
'There are still plenty of meat in some places, "he says,' but I'm told that when all the recovery is over, very much like me as I was before."
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