| ■ Doctors Report World's First Face Transplant | 2010.04.22 |
| Doctors in Spain say a young man who received the world's first full-face transplant is recovering well from the operation. The Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona said the patient received a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other facial features, the Associated Press reported. He lost his face in an accident five years ago. Since then, he's had to breathe and be fed through tubes and had nine surgeries before the face transplant, the hospital said. It gave no more details about the patient or about how he lost his face, the AP reported. Ten partial face transplants have been carried out worldwide, but this is the first involving a whole face, hospital officials said. |