Surgeons perform near-total face transplant on patient

Published November 18, 2014FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print A team of surgeons at Cleveland Clinic complete a 24.5 hour-long face transplant on a patient. (Cleveland Clinic) Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic performed a marathon surgery to complete the facility’s second face transplant for a patient who suffered severe facial trauma in a car accident. The surgery, which took 24.5 hours and was conducted in September, involved nine surgeons and multiple specialists. The facial transplant included two-thirds of the scalp, the forehead, upper and lower eyelids, eye sockets, nose, upper cheeks, upper jaw, upper teeth, facial nerves, salivary glands, facial muscles and skin,...