Charla nash

August 11, 2011 NBC News has appeared, the success of transplantation face of 57-year-old Charla Nash who is attack by chimpanzee weight over 200 pounds in 2009, this monkey is a pet of her friend. But that day, chimp didn’t recognise Ms Nash because she had changed her hairstyle, so it attacks her. Face has been severely damaged; eyes, nose, mouth, hands, broken face bones, missing and damaged. She has been suffering very badly. Her friends, Sandra Herold was trying to help her but was attacked as well and she died a year ago with arterial aneurysms. The monkey were shot dead.

Face have been damaged

Her real face before being attacked.

Team of surgeons and nurses, more than 30 people of Hospital Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, U.S., led by Dr. Bohdan Pomanhac have spent over 20 hours of the painstaking surgery to rebuild Nash’s face. Groundbreaking face transplant by face of the donor skin.

New face after face transplants surgery

The donor’s name has been kept secret. The donor can be as much as 20 years younger or up to ten years older than the recipient and must have the same blood type and similar skin colour and skin texture.

The damaged face bones

The medical team with marathon surgery. Longer than 20 hours.

Full face of donor has been sewn attach on the face

After Charla Nash has face transplants, she said that ‘I’m beginning to feel my jaw and chin. And I can move my mouth and smile. I still feel weak. But little by little I’m getting stronger,’ she said off air. Her first meal after the surgery, she said, was eggs and cream cheese.

 

Oprah Winfrey,  in a recent radio interview at the  BFF Gayle King’s Sirius Radio show, told listeners why on her last episode she revealed the face of  Charla Nash after her being attacked by chimps.

Oprah on the radio said,

“There was great concern as to how to show the face, whether to show the face, and how to do it,” And I finally thought that she has to live with it. First of all, she wanted to show it, and she has to live with it, so how dare us think…because we even considered, ‘Should we blot out the face? Should you blur the face?’ And then i said no, we’re not gonna do that, because it’s more important for us to not have to look at her than for her to be willing to show it? That’s not right.”