For face transplant recipients, some of the healing is psychological
What comes with a new face? For roughly 30 patients across the globe who have received face transplants, the answer is both very simple and complex: A new face brings a measure of normalcy after years...
View ArticleUS firefighter has world's most extensive face transplant
US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids. Plastic surgeon Dr Eduardo Rodriguez led the team that performed...
View ArticleFace Transplant Surgeons Make History And Change A Man's Life
Volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison, a 41-year-old resident of Senatobia, Mississippi, suffered extensive facial burns after responding to a residential fire in 2001 -- and his life has never been...
View ArticleFace Transplants Move Forward with Most Extensive Operation Yet
A 41-year-old man who suffered extensive facial burns in 2001 while working as a volunteer firefighter now has a new face. The man recently underwent the most extensive facial transplant done to date,...
View ArticleThe Look of a Face Transplant
When the world’s first face transplant was performed in France in 2005, it pushed medical boundaries and made headlines. Yet the procedure’s future was very much in doubt. The surgeons, operating on a...
View ArticleThis Firefighter Just Received the Most Extensive Face Transplant in History
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...
View ArticleVirtual Surgical Planning Assists with Full Face Transplant (3D Systems...
(Source: 3D Systems Corporation) In September of 2001, first responder Patrick Hardison was gravely injured in the line of duty as a volunteer firefighter in Senatobia, Mississippi. After entering a...
View ArticleNew York team announces fire fighter's face transplant
A New York medical center said Monday it had carried out the most complex and comprehensive face transplant to date, operating on a fire fighter horribly disfigured in 2001. More than 100 doctors,...
View ArticleHow to build a whole new face
Volunteer fireman Patrick Hardison was badly burned in a house fire as he attempted to rescue a woman he believed was trapped in the blaze. His facial injuries from the third-degree burns were severe....
View ArticleTransplant gives new face, more to man, 41
NEW YORK — A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most-extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced on Monday....
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