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Dallas Wiens (born May 6, 1985) is the recipient of the United States first full face transplant operation, performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital during the week of March 14, 2011. [1] It was the first such operation in United States and the third [2] in the world. [3]
Image credits: Jessica Koby His recovery included a groundbreaking 23-hour face and double hand transplant in 2020 at NYU Langone Health, making him the first person to successfully undergo such a ...
A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones ...
On 22 March 2011 Pomahač performed the first full face transplant in the USA (and third in the world, after full face transplants in Spain and France) on Dallas Wiens, 25, who was injured by an electric shock that removed his face. Pomahač led the team of physicians, nurses and anaesthesiologists for more than 15 hours to replace Mr Wiens's ...
A year after Aaron James became the world's first face and eye transplant recipient, ... Related: Chicago Man, 28, Undergoes Kidney Transplant While Awake, ...
A New York hospital has said it performed the world’s first successful face and double hand transplant on a burn victim on August 12. NYU Langone Health released video on February 3 showing the ...
Eduardo De Jesus Rodriguez MD, DDS (born October 13, 1966) is a Cuban American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and reconstructive transplant surgeon, who is known for his contribution to the field of facial transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Aaron James, 46, with surgeon Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who performed his whole-eye and partial face transplantation. - NYU Langone Health