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Connie Culp, woman who underwent first face transplant surgery in US at Cleveland Clinic, has died.
	08/03/2020 12:22:13 AM PDT · by L.A.Justice · 10 replies Fox 8 ^ \| July 30, 2020 \| Fox8 Webcentral (WJW) — Connie Culp, the woman who underwent the first near-total face transplant in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic, has died. The Clinic confirmed the sad news to FOX 8 Thursday evening. Frank Papay, M.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute, released the following statement: "Connie was an incredibly brave, vibrant woman and an inspiration to many. Her strength was evident in the fact that she had been the longest-living face transplant patient to date. She was a great pioneer and her decision to undergo a sometimes-daunting procedure is an enduring gift for all of...

Tearful meeting for pair forever linked by face transplant
	11/10/2017 11:09:33 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 12 replies CBS News ^ \| November 10, 2017 ROCHESTER, Minn. — Standing in a stately Mayo Clinic library, Lilly Ross reached out and touched the face of a stranger, prodding the rosy cheeks and eyeing the hairless gap in a chin she once had known so well. "That's why he always grew it so long, so he could try to mesh it together on the chin," she told Andy Sandness, as he shut his eyes and braced for the tickle of her touch on new nerve endings in the face that had been her husband's. Sixteen months after transplant surgery gave Sandness the face that had belonged to...

French woman given world's first face transplant dies
	09/06/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 15 replies TheLocal.fr ^ \| 06 Sep 2016 15:00 GMT+02:00 Isabelle Dinoire, whose image became known world-wide after being given the first ever face transplant after her dog devoured part of her face, has died in France, according to media reports. Dinoire was left badly disfigured in May 2005 when her Labrador attacked her and ripped off much of her face. But less than a year later she became known world-wide when she revealed her new face after being given the first ever partial face transplant by surgeons at Amiens hospital. […] But last winter Dinoire became ill after her body rejected a new skin graft. As a result, she...

The man with a new face: Severely injured firefighter..most extensive transplant ever performed*
	11/16/2015 7:18:28 PM PST · by Protect the Bill of Rights · 23 replies DailyMail ^ \| 16 November 2015 \| Thomas Burrows A former firefighter whose face was so horrifically burnt while tackling a blaze that he 'scared his own children' has been given a brand new one in the most extensive transplant ever performed. Pat Hardison now wears the face of David Rodebaugh - a 26-year-old who died in August following a cycling accident. The procedure - which was the riskiest face transplant carried out to date - has left Hardison feeling normal again and it should restore his impaired sight, too. The Tennessee man was told he had only a 50 per cent chance of surviving the surgery but it...

Woman meets man who got dead brother's face in transplant
	05/29/2015 10:29:38 AM PDT · by windcliff · 20 replies Hindustan Times ^ \| May 29 2015 \| unknown In an emotional get-together, a woman has met for the first time a man who received her late brother's face in a groundbreaking transplant. Rebekah Aversano visited Richard Norris at his Virginia home and stroked his face — which once belonged to her 21-year-old brother Josh. "Do you mind if I touch it?" Aversano asked during the emotional meeting filmed by "60 Minutes Australia'. The family of Aversano had donated the face of Josh to Richard Norris, who had suffered severe facial disfigurement after accidentally shooting himself in 1997 when he was 22. Norris, now 39, had undergone dozens of...

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