Doctors perform first ever tongue transplant

sylphishone · July 21, 2003, 10:01pm

Here is the link.

Do you think they will be able to taste anything or is this more just for talking?:dubious:

DMark · July 21, 2003, 10:17pm

I hear the surgeon used a special sewing procedure called the lickity split.

DougC · July 21, 2003, 10:17pm

- - Now just hooold on a minute there, buddy. Before we get all worked up about transplanted tongues, I wanna know what medicine it is they gave this bear and how its fur turned color so quick:

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Mottpot · July 21, 2003, 10:56pm

I’m sorry . . . . but I want to know too. Maybe something they had to wash him with, or a lotion or something?

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