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 ...

Joe DiMeo was the first survivor of a combined face and double hand transplant. He and his wife, Jessica, have made his story go viral At 18 years old, Joe DiMeo was in a life-altering car crash that ...

Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. May 23, 2013— -- Patients usually have to wait several years before undergoing face transplant surgery, but after a work accident left ...

'I didn't want to talk to anyone about it. I wish I would have now.' Only about 50 people in the world have ever received a face transplant, and the story of how this man got to this point is full of ...

HARBOR BEACH, MI - Night had fallen over Harbor Beach, covering the shoreline in darkness when the town’s quiet was shattered by a father’s anguished scream. “No, Derek, no!” Jerry Pfaff screamed. Ten ...

Before face transplants, burn victims and others who’d lost substantial amounts facial tissues in a traumatic incident could only rely on a patchwork of skin grafts from elsewhere on the body or ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

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NEW YORK — Surgeons have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant — though it's far too soon to know if the man will ever see ...