First Face Transplant – A New Era in Medical Science
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Five years ago Connie Culp was shot with a shotgun by her husband, Thomas. The wound left her hanging near the door of death. The blast totally destroyed her nose, cheek, upper mouth and one of her eye. Around hundreds of fragments of shotgun pallet and bone splinters were surrounded in her face. She needed an external tube into her windpipe for breathing process. The only parts of her face left were her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin.
Now, the news hat made the history is, five months ago she received a new face from a dead women. She came forward Tuesday to show off the result of the nations first face transplant. But before that, her identity was secret. The 46 year old Culp’s expressions are still bit inexpressive, but she can now talk, smell her food and smile.
“I guess I’m the one you came to see today,” Culp said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the revolutionary operation was performed. But “I think it’s more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person’s face.”
Dr. Risal Djohan, a plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic looked at her injuries after two months. Dr. Djohan assured Culp’s that he try to fix it, but was not sure if it will work. She has undergone 30 operations for trying to fix her face. To make cheekbones, the doctors took parts from her ribs and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had numerous skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own or smell.
But on December 10th, after 22 hours operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors managed to replace 80 percent of Culp’s face with bones, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another dead woman. Although other face transplant were not far-reaching as this but it was the fourth face transplant in the world. Still, there is no information about the donor or how she died.
Culp’s face is now bloated and squarish and her skins droops in big folds that doctors hope to trim away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles. 
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