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My Shocking Story: Human Face Transplant introduction

My Shocking Story: Human Face Transplant introduction - (01:23)

At a military hospital in China, surgeons are experimenting with human face transplants to improve the lives of disfigured patients

  • Added: 08-Oct-2008
  • Popularity: 239 views this week

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" France. On 27th of November 2005, the first time ever, part of a human face was successfully transplanted on to another. The ground-breaking surgery makes headlines around the world."

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" If in future, we do another face transplant, its result will have to be up to the standard we have already achieved, and that is very, very high."

" But a military hospital in China is conducting its own experiments."

" That's an ideal technique of face transplantation, if we can transplant the left face, we will have a much better result."

" Surgeon Guo Shuzhong wants to take face transplantation to the next level."

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" I want to get respect from my colleagues, and I want to develop new surgical techniques to help my patients. With bear attack victim Li Guoxing, he'll make history, but the stakes are high."

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" Failure would be a personal tragedy."

" I am really worried about the future of this patient."

" And could shatter the dreams of disfigured people throughout the world."

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