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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]
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 July 29, 2020, Culp died from an infection unrelated to her face transplant. She was 57 years old. [10]Frank Papay, the chair of the Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute who was on Culp's surgical squad, reflected upon her death: "Connie was an incredibly brave, vibrant woman and an inspiration to many.
NYU Langone patient Aaron James underwent the first whole-eye and partial-face transplant following a near-death electrocution in 2021. Here, James is seen on Aug. 13, 2024. NYU Langone Health
A year after Aaron James became the world's first face and eye transplant ... A new study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association details James' remarkable recovery ...
A key step in the whole-eye transplant surgery was reconnecting Aaron’s optic nerve to the donor eye, said Dr. José-Alain Sahel, clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
James also had trouble speaking, so he agreed to undergo a face transplant, including the world's first transplant of a donor eye. While he regained the ability to taste, smell and eat solid foods ...
The Know-How of Face Transplantation is a college-level textbook edited by Maria Siemionow that is 493 pages long. It was published in 2011 by Springer Publishing. Siemionow performed the first near-full face transplant in the United States, which is still extremely rare. Siemionow says that "30 have been done around the world." [1]