On August 14, surgeons at New York University Langone Medical Center performed the most complex face transplant ever tried. Today — November 14 — doctors announced that the procedure was a complete success. Here's how they did it, in a single and somewhat grisly animation: Surgeons had to disconnect all of the veins and nerves that connected the donor's face to his body, then reconnect them when they put his face onto the recipient's face, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, a plastic surgeon now at NYU Langone, explained at a press...
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