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==={{anchor|Face replant}} Self as donor ("face replant")=== The world's first full-face replant operation was on 9-year-old Sandeep Kaur, whose face was ripped off when her hair was caught in a [[threshing machine|thresher]]. Sandeep's mother witnessed the accident. Sandeep arrived at the hospital unconscious with her face in two pieces in a plastic bag. An article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' recounts: "In 1994, a nine-year-old child in northern India lost her face and scalp in a [[threshing machine]] accident. Her parents raced to the hospital with her face in a plastic bag and a surgeon managed to reconnect the arteries and replant the skin."<ref name="Scientists prepare to turn fiction into fact with first full-face transplan">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/medicine/story/0,11381,1225537,00.html |title=Scientists prepare to turn fiction into fact with first full-face transplant | work=The Guardian |access-date=25 November 2007 | location=London | first=Tim | last=Radford | date=27 May 2004}}</ref> The operation was successful, although the child was left with some muscle damage as well as scarring around the perimeter where the facial skin was sutured back on. Sandeep's doctor was [[Abraham Thomas (surgeon)|Abraham Thomas]], one of India's top [[microsurgery|microsurgeons]]. In 2004, Sandeep was training to be a nurse.<ref name="titleFace Transplant : Picture Slide Show : Discovery Health">{{cite web|title=Face Transplant : Picture Slide Show |url=http://health.discovery.com/centers/plasticsurgery/facetransplant/slideshow/slide.html |work=Discovery Health |access-date=15 September 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051205030634/http://health.discovery.com/centers/plasticsurgery/facetransplant/slideshow/slide.html |archive-date=5 December 2005 }}</ref> In 1996, a similar operation was performed in the Australian state of [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]], when a woman's face and scalp, torn off in a similar accident, was packed in ice and successfully reattached.<ref name="[[Seattle Times]]">{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970922/2561892/womans-face-reattached-in-rare-surgery |title=Woman's Face Reattached in Rare Surgery |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=19 April 2012 |date=22 September 1997}}</ref>
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