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Plastic surgery to correct individual facial defects already do not surprise anyone. To correct the ears, to correct the nose – such operations do all the time. However, there are times when no plastic surgery will help – so disfigured person as a result of injury or accident. There is only one way out transplant the face from the donor completely. But is it possible? Yes!
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Tears of happiness
After the operation, several days have already passed and finally, the bandages removed. Doctors give Ugur Ajar a mirror. 19 year old boy with impatiently grabs him and looks at his image for a long time. The face he had never seen before will now be his forever and ever. Ugur lowers the mirror. Tears flow down his face. Swallowing them, he says thanks to Dr. Omer Özkan and his assistants who performed the operation. And a special thanks – relatives of Ahmet Kayi who donated the organs of the deceased boys.
Ugur had never looked in the mirror before. 2 more months as a baby, he was burned during a severe fire and his face was disfigured. Ugur knew that it’s hard for people to look at him, therefore led a reclusive lifestyle, with no comrades or friends. The prospect of finding a decent job and finding your place in life for there was no boy from a village near the Turkish resort of Antalya. But somewhere in heaven, stars converged and crossed on Earth life paths of Ugur Ajar and surgeon Omer Ozkan.
The Wizard Omer Ozkan
Surgeon Professor Omer Özkan at his 40s had more than fame, and fame among his colleagues as upscale specialist in the field of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. They called him a master, and patients called him a wizard and by god. In 2010, Ozkan sewn the arms of 29-year-old Cihan Topal, in 2011 transplanted the uterus of 21-year-old Derya Sert (in whom she absent from birth). After many plastic surgeries person, he began to prepare for surgery for his transplant.
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Of course, Omer had predecessors. Back in 2005 in France underwent a partial face transplant operation. Jean-Michel Deburnard and Bernard Devoshel transplanted a triangle from nose to chin Isabelle Dinouard, injured by a dog bite. IN 2010 in Spain was produced the world’s first complete face transplantation. Similar operations were carried out in the USA. Many people who had not previously gone outside without a mask returned to normal life.
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First operation
In January 2012, the news came to Professor Ozkan’s clinic, that a young man was killed in an accident. That was the case when the dead had to help the living. Omer showed stunning organizational abilities. It was necessary to deliver the corpse hundreds of kilometers to the clinic and the most difficult thing is to get permission from relatives to withdraw organs of the deceased. How to come with such a request to the family, just received the terrible news? But it was impossible to put off, everyone a delayed hour reduced the likelihood of a successful outcome. It is not known what arguments the representative of the clinic made, but Consent has been obtained.
While heavy negotiations were ongoing, Omer Ozkan was preparing for the most difficult operations. It was necessary to remove the face from the deceased along with the cartilage tissue, nerve fibers, blood vessels and muscles, and transplant them on Adjara, after removing the damaged tissue and Having prepared a place for a transplant. And then stitch hundreds of the smallest capillaries, vessels and nerves. The operation lasted about 10 hours.
A few days passed. Dr. Ozkan admitted to reporters that frankly pleased with the results. Ajar stated that he was simply happy. He will be able to find work and dreams of a family. And the clinic’s specialists told reporters that Professor Ozkan did not spend that day one, but two operations: another transplant was performed limbs (2 arms and one leg) to 34-year-old Attila Kavdyr, become disabled as a result of an accident.
Let’s make a handsome freak
Ozkan conducted the next face transplant in the same 2012 year. The 27-year-old Toran Cholak received a new face, once injured in a fire. Then there were Cengiz Gul and Khatija Nergis.
Colleagues respond with enthusiasm about the operations of Ozkan. Usually after an operation considered successful, the patient’s face is, to put it mildly, not Suitable for magazine cover. For many, facial expressions are minimized – what to do if more than 40 are responsible for only a smile muscles!
And Professor Ozkan aims not only to fix ugliness, but make a person so that looking at him, an outsider and think not Could a person have undergone a complicated surgical operation. Ugur Adjar received several offers to participate in television programs and filming video clips. Previously, none of the patients who received a new the person has not received such offers.
There is safety in numbers
In his interviews, Professor Ozkan constantly notes that his success would not have been possible without state support. All these costly operations paid by the Social Security Service Turkey. The president of the country promises that the state will continue to be support the work of Dr. Ozkan and his team.
And we have to wait for the near future, when women will be change their faces as they change hairstyles today.
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