Person With Worlds First Face Transplant Meets Press [pics]
 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...be_left_i.html

Picture in article. Pretty damn cool.

looks like they still need more practice to get it right

Wasn't there a previous face transplant years ago? It was when a woman was savagely mangled by a neighborhood dog that the doctors had to take a recently deceased face of a young woman and place it on her?

It doesn't look too good?

major fail

wow ... so cool we can do shit like that now a days...

it was a face transplant not cosmetic surgery ... it gave this guy new life....

practice it is

Still early to tell the final results, it's going to take weeks before all tissues are not swollen anymore...

Is it always going to stay that shitty brown?

"Please, after this press conference I want you to leave me, my family and my friends in peace," he said. "It is difficult enough for us to appear before all these cameras, so you can imagine how Rafael feels," said surgeon Tomas Gomez Cia, the leader of the transplant team.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...xzz0mzlapG Wb

Nothing but sympathy.

Exactly. I also remember that woman and the press conference she did. Will be interesting to know what happened to her.