Details of three face transplant cases revealed

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Their report outlined some of the medical challenges of face transplant surgeries, as well as the psychological impacts of giving someone a donor’s face.
The first patient was Dallas Wiens, a man whose face was essentially erased by extensive burns when he accidentally touched a high-tension power line while painting a church. Last March, doctors reconstructed his forehead, nose, lips and facial skin. They also gave him muscles and nerves that would enable him to move his face and feel sensation with it.  more...