[Plutarch]

These candidates need to be able to face rejection.

[headsonpikes]

worst-case scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away

Thus making losing face more than a metaphor!

[neverdem]

Whole frozen ovary transplanted

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[konaice]

But her critics say the operation is too risky for something that is not a matter of life or death, as organ transplants are.

Skin grafts are done fairly frequently from cadavers. Usually not this extensive.

Further, since it is a very thin skin layer that is transplanted the likelhood of waking up looking like someone else is pretty thin (pun intended). The transplant will match your bone/muscle structure over a few weeks.

And this is a good thing, because otherwise Hillary would be wearing Al Gore's face next week.

[Navy Patriot]

Nothing new here, been done before, Hillary Clinton is really Joe Stalin.

[manwiththehands]

... a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before ...

Michael Jackson?

[6SJ7]

Following surgery....
"What ever you do, Mrs. Smith, don't sneeze!"

[mabelkitty]

Why aren't these people being evaluated for mental deformities?
They force transexuals to undergo years of psychiatric treatment, and I think this is just as drastic.
Wonder how the cadaver's living family will feel when they see their dead loved ones face on a different body?
I guess leaving myself to science is now out of the question.

[LostInBayport]

"Complications could include infections that turn your new face black and require a second transplant or reconstruction with skin grafts. "

My theory is that these failures have really been going on in secret for years. How else does one explain Helen Thomas, Joey Biden or Susan Estrich?

I accept your thanks for not posting photographs of the above. I didn't do it out of kindness...I simply don't know how to do it!

[Born Conservative]

[isom35]

didnt cage and travolta already do this?

[Dustbunny]

Visions of the 'Twilight Zone'.

Would be nice for those so severly disfigured they would go to this extreme to have it actually work.

[Doctor Stochastic]