Face Transplant

Face Transplant Recipient Says He Can Now Feel Daughter's Kisses

AP | Posted 04.02.2012

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BOSTON -- The nation's first full face transplant recipient says he can feel his daughter's kisses now, a year after the procedure. Dallas Wiens (WEE...

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Va. Man Gets Face Transplant After Gun Accident

AP | SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 05.27.2012

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BALTIMORE — After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident got a new face, no...

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37-Year-Old Injured In Gun Accident Gets A New Face

AP/Sarah Brumsfield | Posted 05.27.2012

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By Sarah Brumsfield, Associated Press BALTIMORE — A 37-year-old Virginia man injured in a 1997 gun accident has received what University of Maryl...

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Man Who Received First U.S. Full Face Transplant Is Smiling

AP | Posted 03.15.2012

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Ten months after becoming the first person to get a full face transplant in the United States, a Fort Worth man marvels at r...

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U.S. Considers Regulating Face And Hand Transplants

AP | By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 01.06.2012

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-- The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants just as it does now with kidneys, hearts and other organs, with waiting lists, ...

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Charla Nash, Face Transplant Recipient, Speaks In Interview For First Time

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.27.2011

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Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who almost died two years ago when her friend's pet chimp attacked her and ripped off her face and hands, appeared ...

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Woman Mauled By Chimp Gets Face Transplant

AP | Posted 08.12.2011

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BOSTON -- A Connecticut woman who underwent a full face transplant after an attack by a chimpanzee wants to eat hamburgers and pizza again. Officia...

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Transplant Recipient Returns Home With New Face

The Huffington Post | By Amanda Chan | Posted 08.07.2011

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A decade ago, 30-year-old Mitch Hunter had a different face. But this Saturday, the Indiana resident returned home to his girlfriend, children, fri...

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WATCH: First Face Transplant Recipient Speaks

Posted 07.09.2011

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Dallas Wiens, the first recipient of a full face transplant in the United States, made his debut public appearance on Monday during an interview with ...

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Second Full-Face Transplant In U.S. A Success

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

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BOSTON -- Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed the nation's second full-face transplant, less than a month after the first. A team of more tha...

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The Nation's First Full Face Transplant

AP/The Huffington Post | RUSSELL CONTRERAS and MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON -- A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of s...

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Badly Burned Man May Be 3rd In U.S. To Get Face Transplant

AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 11.17.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Dallas C. Wiens wants to be able to smile, to smell the rain, to feel his 3-year-old daughter's kisses. Two years ago, Wien...

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WATCH: Face Transplant Story Told By Donor's Wife

Posted 05.25.2011

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"What a great gift you could give to somebody," said Joseph Helfgot, the soon-to-be donor of his face. "The people out there that are donors, they wou...

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Full Face Transplant With Eyelids: French Team Completes Historic Operation (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — A 35-year-old man with a genetic disorder has an entirely new face – including tear ducts that cry, and a chin that sprouts stubbl...

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Rafael, Spanish Face Transplant Patient, Goes Public (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) MADRID -- A Spanish man who underwent a partial face transplant in January has appeared in public for the first time, hugging his surgeon and tha...

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Spanish hospital Claims 1st Full-Face Transplant

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.17.2011

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MADRID — A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own...

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First Full Face Transplant Reportedly Performed In Spain

Posted 05.25.2011

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Surgeons in Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital claim to have performed the world's first full face transplant. The unnamed patient has received an en...

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James Maki: Second US Face Transplant Recipient (SLIDESHOW, VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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***TEXT FROM AP*** The Massachusetts man who received the nation's second face transplant asked for a mirror four days after the operation. "I just ...

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Connie Culp: Facing the Nation

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

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When Connie Culp's husband shot off her face with a shotgun, he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison. She was sentenced to spend the rest of ...

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Connie Culp, Nation's First Face Transplant Patient, Emerges (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffingtion Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP: CLEVELAND -- Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face ...

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Love Your New Face, Dear!

David Roche | Posted 11.17.2011

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I was especially interested in this face transplant because I myself am disfigured. The left side of my face bulges and is streaked with a purple congenital venous malformation.

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Best of 2008: Transplants

David Rees | Posted 11.17.2011

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The news has been buzzing with details about this week's amazing face transplant, but a quick review of the year shows that the face transplant was not, in fact, the best transplant of 2008.

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Hollywood's Special Glow

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've already seen Junior, the great career-defining work of the esteemed Californian governor, played out in real life.

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Nation's First Face Transplant Done In Cleveland

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

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CLEVELAND — A woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation at the Cleveland Cli...

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First Face Transplant In US Successfully Completed In Cleveland

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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CLEVELAND — A woman so horribly disfigured she was willing to risk her life to do something about it has undergone the nation's first near-total...

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