Surgeons ready to perform face transplant

A TEAM of Dutch and American surgeons claim they are ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.

“There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done. We submit that that time is now,” the doctors wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics.

The procedure attaches the face of a dead donor to someone with a severely disfigured face, such as a burn or accident victim.