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Face Transplantation: Plastic Surgery Hot Topics with Rod J. Rohrich, MD

Video Author:Rod J. Rohrich, MD

Published on:December 22, 2014

This month Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery," discusses two new articles on the topic of face transplantation. The first article studies facial transplantation’s effects on functional blinking. The second article compares the cost of tradition reconstruction techniques to facial transplantation. Volume 135, Issue 1.

“Eyelid Transplantation: Lessons from a Total Face Transplant and the Importance of Blink” by Sosin; “Cost Analysis of Conventional Face Reconstruction versus Face Transplantation for Large Tissue Defects” by Nguyen et al.

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. Keywords: Head and neck reconstruction; Face transplantation;