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# Face Transplant

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# A Decade On
Face transplants: Some experts still question risks associated with operation
Following the death of the first face transplant patient, some experts say the risks are too great given the surgery is not life-saving.
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Sep 10th 2016, 9:15 AM
# France
Woman who had world's first face transplant dies aged 49
Her operation set the stage for dozens more such transplants.
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Sep 6th 2016, 8:35 PM
# New York
"There is hope": This man just got the most extensive face transplant ever
Patrick Hardison was burned in a blaze in 2001.
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Nov 16th 2015, 5:53 PM
# sitdown sunday
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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Jun 9th 2013, 10:00 AM
# Face Transplant
Pictures: Results of most extensive face transplant ever
The man who was disfigured in a gun accident says he can now walk past people without a second look seven months after the surgery.
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Dec 5th 2012, 5:30 PM
# Science
VIDEO: Full face transplant man, one year on
Dallas Wiens, who lost all his facial features in an accident, says he can now feel his daughter kiss him on the cheek.
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Apr 4th 2012, 12:36 PM
# Medical Marvel
US man successfully undergoes world's most extensive face transplant
Richard Lee Norris can feel his face and is already shaving, despite having his face ruined in a gun accident 15 years ago.
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Mar 28th 2012, 6:47 PM
# USA
Boston hospital performs country's second full-face transplant
Surgeons in Boston have successfully performed the second full facial transplant in the United States; the patient, 30-year-old Mitch Hunter, was disfigured in a car accident ten years ago.
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Apr 26th 2011, 4:18 PM
# Face Transplant
US hospital gives man new nose, lips, skin and muscles in face transplant op
Hospital in Boston carries out America’s first – and the world’s second – first full face transplant.
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Mar 21st 2011, 7:00 PM
# Science
Photos of the world's first full face transplant
Patient goes public for first time.
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Jul 26th 2010, 7:46 PM