Tech | April 25, 2010 | 8 comments

World's first full face transplant patient doing well, questions remain about how he'll deal with new identity.

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1268766/Can-worlds-face-transplant-patient-live-ne...

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Propped up on crisp white pillows in a sunny ward, the patient's first words for five years will be mumbled through a stranger's lips.

As close members of his family lean over his bed to hear him, they may strain to understand what he is trying to say. They certainly will not recognise the face that the sounds are coming from.

The man in the hospital ward in Barcelona, Spain, will look younger than the loved one they remember before every feature on his 30-year-old face was blasted away in a freak and near-fatal shotgun accident in 2005.

more at link- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1268766/Can-worlds-face-transplant-pat...
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