Dr. Omer Ozkan of Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey's southern province of Antalya and his team have started to transplant the face of brain dead Muhittin Turan to a 54-year-old Turkish patient, Salih Ustun.
31-year-old Turan experienced a motorbike accident two days ago, and suffered brain death at the hospital. The family of Turan decided to donate his organs.
Prof. Dr. Omer Ozkan, surgeon at the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at the Akdeniz University Hospital in Antalya, who also performed the first and fourth face transplantation surgeries in Turkey, came to the hospital on Thursday at 11 pm to harvest the face of Turan. Turan's scalp, eyelids, jaw and maxilla, nose and half his tongue were harvested by Dr. Ozkan during a successful operation which lasted about 8 hours.
Dr. Ozkan, who harvested the face, came to the Akdeniz University Hospital at 7.15 a.m. Dr. Ozkan said to a journalist at the hospital, "everything is OK!." The operation of the face transplantation started at 7.30 a.m.
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