Doctor Pushes for First Face Transplant

Face transplants are on the horizon. A doctor and clinic are ready to do it. Now all they need is a patient willing to undergo the transplant.

Designed to help people with disfigured faces, face transplants use the skin from a deceased donor's face to reconstruct a person's face, making it possible for the person to avoid the long process of having to undergo multiple surgeries using skin grafted from his own body.

The face transplant is still a controversial idea. Read this article to learn why.