AMERICA’S FIRST FACE TRANSPLANT A SUCCESS! FACE OFF!

Doctors of hopeful that the first full-face transplant in the U.S. will give hope to battle-scarred veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars. The ground-breaking surgery was performed last week at Brigham and Women's Hospital on a Texas man who was left deformed by a high-voltage power-line accident. Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, survived more than 15 hours of surgery by a team of doctors who attached an anonymous donor's nose, lips and skin to his facial muscles and nerves. The Department of Defense financed the surgery in hopes that it will help future disfigured soldiers. The first full-facial transplant in the world was performed last year in Spain.