FIRST FULL-FACE TRANSPLANT PERFORMED IN SPAIN
July 09, 2010 @ 06:04 AM — by Martin O'Toole
According to the Huffington Post, the first full-face transplant was performed at Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona earlier this year. The Spanish patient accidentally shot himself with a shotgun in 2005, essentially destroying his face from the eye sockets down, although his eyes and eyesight were unaffected.
