25-year-old construction worker gets new face
(NEWSER) - A Boston hospital has performed the nation's first full face transplant, the AP reports. Dallas Weins, a Texas construction worker badly disfigured and blinded in a 2008 power line accident, underwent a 15-hour operation in which parts of a deceased donor's face were transplanted onto his skull. Weins will not regain his sight, and will not resemble "either what he used to be or the donor," the lead plastic surgeon said. More»
