Posted February 01, 2011 in Blog, Plastic Surgery in the News, Uncategorized
An online article from “The Chart” on CNN Health begins: “Face transplant: $349,959
A year’s supply of immune-suppressing drugs: $14,000 – $20,000
Being able to breathe, to eat and to feel better about appearing in public: priceless”
After celebrating the initial success of the first face transplant in the United States, the doctors who performed the operation assessed the financial cost in a report published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
That transplant done in 2008 at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, restored a gunshot victim, Connie Culp her sense of taste, smell and gave her a new face.
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