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Monday, September 19, 2005

Whenever I See Your Smiling...Faces

Check it out...a doctor from the Cleveland Clinic wants to attempt the world's first "face transplant." No, this isn't so that ugly people can look like beautiful people - at least not yet. Right now it's a possible breakthrough in helping burn victims and other such face trauma sufferers to reconstruct the look of their face.

Be warned: this article is freakin' creepy. They actually take the face off of a dead cadaver (well, duh...you can't really have a live cadaver), put it on a hanger or something while they remove your own face, and then extend the cadaver's face over the bones of your skinless face. Hence you have a new face. And a two-week hospital stay to make sure your body doesn't reject your new face.

Wow, I have never been more grateful that I'm not a burn victim. But I think these doctors may have tapped into a future reality television show..."ABC Face Makeover" or "FaceSwap" or something.

2 Comments:

  • I heard about this and am going to read the article now, but my question is, how the hell do you bring dead skin back to life? That's nasty, man.

    By Blogger Mags, at 3:52 PM  

  • There are two ways to bring dead skin back to life. The first is to wave a cup of Folgers coffee in front of it. This also works to bring home your long-lost relatives on Christmas morning, and can also help you fool an entire restaurant full of old people. The second way is to ask Joan Rivers what she does.

    By Blogger MikeJ, at 10:51 AM  

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