A French man just became the first person ever to receive two face transplants
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- Jerome Hamon of France is the first person in the world to receive a second face transplant, something that's led French media to refer to him as the "man with three faces."
- Hamon's first transplant needed to be replaced when his body started to reject it six years after he received it.
- Organ transplants always come with the risk that the immune system will react to them.
- Fortunately, Hamon's second face transplant seems to have been a success so far.
Frenchman Jerome Hamon received his third face earlier this year.
The transplant procedure began in the early afternoon on January 15 and ended the next morning, according to a statement from Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris, where the procedure was done. But first, Hamon needed to have all of the blood in his body replaced. That monthlong procedure was necessary so doctors could remove antibodies that could have potentially caused his body to reject the face.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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