A team of surgeons in Spain are claiming that they have managed to carry out the World's first successful full face transplant.
They have managed to replace skin tissue, new cheekbones, facial muscles, teeth, palate, skin, nose, lips and jaw in a marathon operation lasting over 24 hours.
Although not an organ, the bone and muscle were donated from another person, which means the next time this person looks in the mirror a different face will look back at them.
Before the surgery, the man, a farmer in his thirties, had been unable to swallow, speak or breathe properly after accidentially shooting himself in the face in 2005. Now he will have a fully reconstructed face.
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Given it is now possible, could you donate your face to someone after your death and if you were in this situation, could you go through such an operation, knowing you would never look on you again?