American woman to get a third face due to the deterioration of her second face by transplant:"I will give up only when I am gone" are the words of Carmen Tarleton who needs a third face now. She is now aged 51 years who was beaten up and doused in lye or hydrogen peroxide by her husband in the US in 2007, to lose her eyesight and most of her body including the face.
In 2013 her disfigured face was transplanted to give her a second new face, after shutting down her immune system. But after nearly six years blood vessels to her face had narrowed and closed, causing her facial tissues to die. It means that she needs a third face or get back her old disfigured face.
Face transplants need re-planted again after a particular time
Bohdan Pomohac, director of plastic surgery transplantation at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, said that there are many unknowns and many new things in face transplants. Being one of the surgeons to give Carmen the second face, he also said that, it is not realistic to hope faces are going to last a lifetime for patients.