Nowadays, there are many improvements in medical technology. As medical technology has improved, problems among medical transplantation have been arisen; above all, facial transplant seems to be the most difficalt idea. Facial transplant is given to a person who had lost his/her facial skin somehow in order to recover his/her face as much as possible, and this kind of medical technology is seriously in need to some people; however, there are some problems of the matter. Those are difficult to solve because of complicated ethical problems.
Faces are the most personal parts of our body that definitely show our individualities. Faces are different in each person; therefore, those have significant meaning of our own. First, it is not easy for patients to change their own faces. Even though they made their decision to have facial transplants as medical treatments, it is hard to find donors who will give their facial skin for others. Although donors are already dead, it is not easy to use their facial skin of their own because their families will not let them be used so easily; this is the second problem.
Problems go on even after the surgical operation of facial transplant is over. As a matter of course, the patients' faces after the facial transplant become completely different from as it used to be. It means that the part that typically showed the patients' personality have changed. This is the most complexed problem. It may also cause serious problems, such as anthropophobia, for example, to patients; moreover, they can hardly live as they used to anymore after the transplant.
As the way to solve these problems, scientists have been started to research about artificial skin. Using artificial skin will not only cure more and more patients but also be able to help people without hurting anybody. Furthermore, it might recover patients' facial skin almost without changing their faces. It will surely be successful to make artificial skin for practical use. I am looking forward to it.