Face transplants

Joe DiMeo stands with his parents Rose and John in the backyard of their home in Clark, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, six months after an extremely rare double hand and face transplant. “In the future, I have a lot more plans for myself,” he said. “You got a new chance at life. You really can’t give up.” (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

‘New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.

CORRECTS LAST NAME TO VLASSAKOV - In this July 2020, photo released by Brigham and Women's Hospital, members of the transplant anesthesiology team, Drs. Kamen V. Vlassakov front, and Lindsay Wahl lead Carmen Blandin Tarleton to the operating room for her second face transplant at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Tarleton, who had her first face transplant in 2013, became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo a second face transplant procedure after her first transplant failed. (J. Kiely Jr./Lightchaser Photography/Brigham and Women's Hospital, via AP).

AP Exclusive: Woman is 1st in US to get 2nd face transplant

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2010, file photo, Connie Culp, the nation’s first partial face transplant recipient, speaks with the Associated Press at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S., has died at 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant. (AP Photo/Jason Miller, File)

Connie Culp, 1st US partial face transplant recipient, dies

AP Exclusive: Twin tragedies give survivor a new face

Face transplant recipient’s donor face now failing

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A woman who was severely burned in a domestic violence attack in Vermont is hoping for a second face transplant after doctors recently discovered tissue damage that likely will lead to the loss of her donor face.

California man unveils new smile after face transplant

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California man whose suicide attempt left his face disfigured had successful facial transplant surgery 18 months later, and the lead surgeon estimates his face should be “pristine” in as little as three years.

Man with 3 faces: Frenchman gets 2nd face transplant

In a medical first, a French surgeon has performed a second face transplant on the same patient _ who is now doing well. Dr.

Texan with full-face transplant gets married

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texan who became the first in the nation to receive a full face transplant recipient after a 2008 power line accident has wed another burn victim he met at a support group.