Beauty is everything in this world. I find it hypocritical when society says its all about the personality not looks. Looks are everything, that's what matters to some people. The fashion, music, entrepreneur world focuses on these elements. I am a person that looks for personality. I go by the phrase that "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder". My boyfriend has an illness and I forget to judge his outside just inside.
On November 27,2005 a French-woman named Isabelle Dinoire was the first person in the world to receive a partial face transplant. This was medical news because face transplants were considered impossible to do. Transplanting the nose and the chin are difficult because of the amount of tissue needed. Another face transplant was a Spaniard named Oscar he unlike Isabelle has all his chin, nose, and mouth transplant. This is an advancement in technology; however, to this new foreign transplant is controversial.
The conflict has raised both medical and ethical concerns, and with experts weighing in on all sides of the issue, the controversy is still far from resolved. The main debate questions whether the benefits of a face transplant outweigh the many risks associated with the procedure.Transplant rejection is one of the main risks associated with face transplants. According to the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and the American Society for Plastic Surgeons’ Facial Transplantation Guiding Principles, “It is estimated that 10 percent of facial transplant recipients will experience an episode of rejection within the first year, with a thirty to fifty percent rate in the second to the fifth year.”
The other reason is that getting used to a new identity. According to Isabelle Dinoire she has to get used to her new face. Also stem cells are being used to grow new tissues and bones for face transplants. The face transplants are more controversial than legalizing marijuana. The face transplants are also highly resourceful and needs more tissues from the donor and expensive. The negative side is also the tissue rejection. Isabelle Dinoire, has to take for her rest of her life immmusuppressants in order for her antibodies not to attack the foreign tissue.
Liver transplants is not as rigorous to obtain but not as controversial because face transplants the donors are harder to find and its more expensive. Liver transplant at first were considered unethical but over the years it has been accepted. Face transplants are more difficult to accept because of the stem cells used to grow new tissues.I believe that if people want to pay for the risky surgery in order to make themselves happy- I say Go For it!! But face transplants are too dangerous and life changing.
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