Face transplants

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

By MARION RENAULT and MARSHALL RITZELFebruary 3, 2021 GMT

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

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

By MICHAEL CASEYAugust 7, 2020 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face.

Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo the procedure after her Full Coverage: Science

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

By RON TODTAugust 1, 2020 GMT

Connie 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...

Face transplant recipient’s donor face now failing

September 22, 2019 GMT

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

November 30, 2018 GMT

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

By MARIA CHENGApril 17, 2018 GMT

LONDON (AP) — In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient — who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany.

Dr. Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris first transplanted a new face onto Jerome Hamon in 2010, when Hamon was in his mid-30s.

AP Exclusive: Twin tragedies give survivor a new face

By SHARON COHENFebruary 17, 2017 GMT

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to another man.