{"id":6471,"date":"2009-08-22T05:37:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2009-08-22T05:37:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T12:37:19","slug":"surgeons-carry-out-worlds-first-face-jaw-and-tongue-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/surgeons-carry-out-worlds-first-face-jaw-and-tongue-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons carry out world&#8217;s first face, jaw and tongue transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.mirror.co.uk<br \/>\nAuthor: staff<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons have successfully carried out the world&#8217;s first face, jaw and tongue transplant.<\/p>\n<p>They spent 16 hours operating on a man of 43 whose face had been horribly disfigured by radiotherapy for a tumour 11 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The patient will eventually be able to eat, taste, swallow and speak again.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Cavadas, who led 30 Spanish medics in Valencia in the day-long op, said yesterday: &#8220;The patient&#8217;s seen himself and is delighted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The case was marred by controversy after authorities released details about the donor against his family&#8217;s wishes. French woman Isabelle Dinoire received the first face transplant four years ago after losing her nose, lips and chin when a dog mauled her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.mirror.co.uk Author: staff Surgeons have successfully carried out the world&#8217;s first face, jaw and tongue transplant. They spent 16 hours operating on a man of 43 whose face had been horribly disfigured by radiotherapy for a tumour 11 years ago. The patient will eventually be able to eat, taste, swallow and speak again. Pedro Cavadas, who led 30 Spanish medics in Valencia in the day-long op, said yesterday: &#8220;The patient&#8217;s seen himself and is delighted.&#8221; The case was marred by controversy after authorities released details about the donor against his family&#8217;s wishes. French woman Isabelle Dinoire received the first face transplant four years ago after losing her nose, lips and chin when a dog mauled her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230,418,1354],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral_cancer_news","tag-radiotherapy","tag-tongue","tag-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}