The third face transplant in the world

Tuesday, in France, doctor had performed the world’s third partial face transplant on the 29-year-old man whose face was disfigured by severe tumors, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part of his cheeks.



The operation took 15 hours to remove
 removed most of the tumors from the
patient's face he
suffered from a genetic condition known as neurofibromatosis, which causes tumors to grow on nerve tissue throughout the body, he had undergone some 30 to 40 o...


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