The Buncke Clinic

Constance M. Buncke, M.D. and Harry J. Buncke, M.D. performed the First toe-to-hand transplantation in the rhesus monkey in 1964. The expanding group then went on to achieve the

First microvascular transplant in the world, Naval Hospital, Oakland 1969.

First great toe-to-thumb transplant in the United States in 1972.

First microvascular transplant at Stanford 1972.

First rat leg transplant, China 1973.

First microvascular transplant in Brazil 1974.

First microvascular transplant at UCSF 1974.

First microvascular transplant at UC Irvine 1976.

First microvascular transplant at Johns Hopkins 1976.

First successful scalp replant in the United States in 1976.

First four-finger replant in the United States to a dominant hand in 1976.

First combined latissimus-serratus transplant in 1979.

First serratus muscle transplant for facial paralysis in 1979.

First scalp transplant between identical twins in 1986.

First microvascular transplant in Kingdom of Jordan 1986.

First finger replanted in a thirteen-month-old child in the United States in 1989.

First four finger and thumb reconstruction with toe transplants to the dominant hand in 1996.

First tongue replant in 1997.