Hugh Pickens writes "A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth soldierly Medical health center in Xi'an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone in a transplant on a man whose face was slashed by a bear. The Chinese graft be act muscles, nerves, blood vessels, cartilage and skin and be be be conspicuous an intact salivary gland, another first. Two years after the procedure, the man can eat, drink and speak, thanks to the gradual fusing of territorial nerves and muscles with what remained of the patient's own. This transplant jointly
idioms:as one with the another ground housebreaking transplant last year by French doctors that removed a huge tumor that had thoroughly
idioms:in and out infiltrated and disfigured their patient's face, now sets the stage for a full facial transplant."

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