US surgeons are to interview a shortlist of patients hoping to be the first to receive a face transplant.
Doctors in the US have already carried out the procedure on bodies donated for medical research.
Now the Cleveland Clinic team will choose a patient whose face is disfigured to receive a 'new' face from a dead donor.
The chance it will work is around 50% and experts have expressed safety and ethical concerns about the procedure."
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