The facial transplant recipient would be Andy Sandness, a 32-year-old who had tried to take his own life 10 years previously and immediately regretted the decision.

He survived, but his face was left absolutely shattered.

A team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota told him that, if the ideal donor appeared, they could perhaps perform a facial transplant, which has been done only a handful of times around the world.







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325004/How-decision-donate-husband-s-face.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

You will live to enjoy the fruits of your labour, thou says the Lord

The face reminds me of Texas chainsaw massacre

Dr Samir Mardini, left, was on call when Andy suffered his initial 2006 gunshot wound and did all the reconstruction at the time; he spent years practicing the face transplant surgeries with his team before placing Andy on the list just 4.5 months before Rudy proved a rare match.




SURGERY TIMELINE


Friday, June 10, 2016

10.16am – Rudy arrives at Mayo Clinic(Donor).

11.53pm – Surgery starts on Rudy(Donor)


Saturday, June 11, 2016

12.30am: Surgery starts on Andy Nerves mapped on both Rudy and Andy


Sunday, June 12, 2016

3.14am: Donated face arrives in Andy’s room

4.30am: Bones plated together

6.00am: Vessels reconnected

9.00am: More plates placed on the mandible (jaw bone)

12pm: Problem detected with vessels, fixed by early afternoon

Evening: Nerves reconnected as well as other structures: salivary gland ducts, incisions made in mouth, skin put back and trimmed, eyelids reconnected to new nose.

eeeewwww

Dr Mardini carries Rudy's donated face from the operating room where doctors worked on Rudy to the nearby operating room to which Andy had been taken.

Explorers can you please explain the whole Rudy face(donor). Was he dead or what?

A multidisciplinary team of 60 medical professionals worked for 56 hours to transplant vessels, nerves, skin, bone and other tissue from Rudy to Andy, ensuring that they took proper breaks during the marathon surgery.

Rudy's face took 24 hours to remove while Andy's surgery lasted a total of 56 hours.

Dr Mardini inspects Andy's face in the days following the transplant; doctors had fitted him with a tracheostomy and stomach tube because be would not be able to eat through his mouth for several weeks to allow incisions to heal.

Rudy was not allowed to look at himself as his face began to heal.

Here, he looks in a mirror for the first time, three weeks after the surgery, when he told doctors that the results 'far exceeded' his expectations.

Dr Mardini looks on as Andy's face is shaved in the days after the surgery; the patient's donor, Rudy, could not grow hair on a small patchof his chin and Andy, too, has no hair in that exact location.

ok

Andy, overcome with emotion from his new face, hugs a member of the transplant medical team; Dr Mardini says that, despite more than two days of surgery, the doctors and nurses remained energized and were proud to be a part of the procedure.

Andy had hoped for a face that could blend into the crowd and would not frighten children; more than six months later, he never expected the results to be as phenomenal as they were following the surgery.

Wait I don't get.. Was Rudy dead or what.. How was it possible to transplant a face between two living persons

Andy months after.

how about rudy who donated his own face to andy was he dead or something ayam not understanding

Rudy(Donor) and wife.

The donor commited suicide, and had signed for donation (with family consent), and recipient was lucky the face had similar morphological and genetic makeup

Where is Rudy

Audrinakane:
Explorers can you please explain the whole Rudy face(donor). Was he dead or what?

Long story, Rudy had family issue, was depressed.

He shot himself.

Before he died in the hospital, he signed to donate all organs.

Wow Andy looks so younger..

The Way Technology is going eh.

Make I just dey Observes.

Explorers Hammering it Back to Back.

This is incredible. We are just far behind in so many things.

Explorers:
A multidisciplinary team of 60 medical professionals worked for 56 hours to transplant vessels, nerves, skin, bone and other tissue from Rudy to Andy, ensuring that they took proper breaks during the marathon surgery.

Rudy's face took 24 hours to remove while Andy's surgery lasted a total of 56 hours.

The whites are amazing, they must hv been descendants of the fallen angels.
They ingenuity is extra ordinary.
Good job Explorer.

Reminds me of the movie 'face off',then we thought it was science fiction.it can't be done....

A very high percentage of what we see in these futuristic movies will soon become reality.

Kudos to you Explorer for your numerous educating threads.

explorers baba. i want to tell u something.



all ds was planned....
believe me




Drabeey was HERE

Drabeey:
explorers baba. i want to tell u something.


all ds was planned.... believe me



Drabeey was HERE

planned as how.

Wow. Medicine keeps me awed!!

whitecloth:

planned as how.

How do u explain the coincidence of time.... one donated his organs.... the other got drpressed and shot himself in the face.

lest i forget..... he was depressed and shot himself through the mouth rather than the head.

oh.... was he so rich that he was given such attention by many doctors?

he was not even sent to a rehab after the whole saga.


baba mi... read between the lines

Rayd502:
Reminds me of the movie 'face off',then we thought it was science fiction.it can't be done....

A very high percentage of what we see in these futuristic movies will soon become reality.

Kudos to you Explorer for your numerous educating threads.

I totally agree