Surgical-Allogeneic Facial Reconstruction: Facial Transplants

Several factors including cancer, malformations and traumas may cause large fa-cial mutilation. these functional and aesthetic deformities negatively affect the psychological perspectives and quality of life of the mutilated patient. conven-tional treatments are prone to fail aesthetically and functionally. the recent intro-duction of the composite tissue allotransplantation (cta), which uses trans-planted facial tissues of healthy donors to recover the damaged or non-existent fa-cial tissue of mutilated patients, resulted in greater clinical results. therefore, the present study aims to conduct a literature review on the relevance and effective-ness of facial transplants in mutilated subjects. it was observed that the facial transplants recovered both the aesthetics and function of these patients and conse-quently improved their quality of life.