Surgeons at UPMC are seeking approval for a “face transplant” operation that 
restores a normal appearance to a patient who has experienced severe facial trauma. You may remember the near-total face transplant performed by surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The operation required 22 hours and a large, multi-skilled team of physicians.
Now according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, doctors and plastic surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are seeking approval to perform a similar operation.
The surgeons evidently have experience with hand transplants — procedures that require advanced techniques to reconnect tissues, veins and blood vessels. A face transplant however, would have different cosmetic goals and could require donation of organs that are difficult to procure.
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