BOSTON HOSPITAL TEAM PERFORMS FIRST FULL FACE TRANSPLANT IN U.S:

Technology has proven to be quite amazing.  It allows us to do what would have never been possible many years ago.  Technology has allowed us to advance in all aspects of life, including Math, Science, Communication, Transportation, and Medicine.  Doctors at a Boston hospital last week performed the first full face transplant in the United States, attaching a donor face to a 25-year-old Fort Worth man whose face was severely burned when his head touched a high-voltage line three years ago.  The U.S Department of Defense funded this operation as part of military's efforts to expand research in innovative medical procedures.  A team of more than 30 surgeons, nurses, anesthesi­olo­gists and residents worked for about 15 hours to transplant the forehead, nose, lips, facial skin, and underlying muscles.  The lead plastic surgeon, said the team was not able to restore Wiens’s vision. But Wiens, who has a young daughter, should be able regain up to 90 percent of normal sensation on the right side of his forehead, right cheek, most of his upper lip and his entire lower lip.  Doctors say the goal of the operation was to improve Wiens’s ability to breathe, eat and talk and restore his face’s social expression.