First face transplant

3 Dec

“As she held the mirror up to her new face, the woman looked at her reflection. She paused for a moment. Unable to speak because of the breathing tube in her throat, she wrote a note, “Merci.” Thank you.

Then, she cried. Dr. Sylvie Testelin, one of her surgeons, cried too.
The results of the daring nose, lips and chin transplant, “the first ever attempted were beyond what the doctors had hoped for. The new face bore an uncanny resemblance to her former face, one doctor said”

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