Fourteen years after a fire left him severely disfigured — no ears, no eyelids, and mere suggestions of a nose and mouth — Patrick Hardison finally has a complete face again. The former Mississippi firefighter, who sustained the debilitating burns battling a blaze in 2001, is the recipient of the world's most extensive face transplant to date. In a remarkable surgery that took over a year of preparation and spanned 26 hours in the operating room, Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez and his 150-person team at NYU Langone Medical Center transferred the face of a recently deceased bike mechanic onto Hardison's bare skull. Hardison's medical team announced the success of the face transplant,...
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