As a follow-up to Heather's story about a French woman who recently required a face transplant, the initial results are good. The woman can eat, but not speak yet. Surgeons literally grafted portions of another woman's face onto her head in this groundbreaking surgery. Of course, as with any transplant, it will be awhile before it can be truly determined whether or not her body will accept the face; she will have to take drugs for the rest of her life to prevent rejection.

The woman had a partial face transplant, of only her lips, nose and chin. Doctors said that reconstruction of the woman's face after she had been attacked by a dog would not solve the primary problems: eating and speaking. Recontruction could help aesthetically, but not practically. Heather also noted that the medical community is in an uproar about the ethics of face transplants: will people only choose the very beautiful? Will this procedure succumb to vanity? However, the most serious issue at hand is that of rejection: What kinds of problems will this woman have if her body rejects her new face? And how will it be rectified?

What do you think? If this operation is successful, should face transplants become more commonplace? Do you have problems with the potential for vanity operations? Personally, I do not anymore than I have problems with plastic surgery. Aesthetic operations are risky and sometimes foolish; however, if someone donates their body to science and doesn't have a problem with their face being recycled, I say, go ahead.